The best Quotes and Sayings about Money and Wealth

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you, but I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

No amount of money ever bought a second of time.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Money will come and go. We all know that. The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Right here, right now.

When a man gets wealthy, he has to deal with the problems of freedom. All the choices he could possibly want. An abyss opens up. Well, I watched that abyss. I watched it ruin men, marriages, but most of all, it ruins the children.

Playboy Interviewer: 'It's been reported that you're the first man in history with a fortune in excess of a billion dollars.'
J. Paul Getty: 'I have no idea. But, if you can count your money you're not a billionaire.'

The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, they can pass you by.

I've always said that power is more important than money. But when it comes to elections, money gives power.

Money is the McMansion in Sarasota, that starts falling apart after ten years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.

What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions? Money!

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Borrowing money from a friend is like having sex. It just completely changes the relationship.

Who needs wealth when you can make a woman laugh?

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank.
Give a man a bank and he can rob the world.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Money isn't real, George. It doesn't matter! It only seems like it does.