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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
Sep 29, 2025
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Money makes the world go round.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Money often costs too much.
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Spread your love everywhere you go.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
A fool and his money are soon partying.
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
A fool and his money are soon married.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
My philosophy has always been, do what you love and the money will follow.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.