Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Money.

The repository contains 88 quotes in the category “Money.”
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Reading about economics after watching a lot of economic activity is like reading the assembly instructions after the Christmas toy has been put together. Certain significant patterns begin to take shape in the mind, even though the instructions are still gibberish and the toy doesn’t work.

P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —     

In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it’s fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it’s volatile as hell. Got that? Me neither.

P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —     

The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there’s nothing in the mall and if you don’t go there they shoot you.

P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —     

It’s better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money.

P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —     

Economics is an entire scientific discipline of not knowing what you’re talking about.

P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —     

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

Yogi Berra
1925 —     

Whever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

George Carlin
1937 — 2008

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Will Rogers
1879 — 1935

Money is only valuable while in circulation.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Remember that time is money.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

About the only thing a nickel is good for nowadays is to make change for a quarter.

Unknown

Every family has a choice of keeping up with the neighbors or the creditors.

Unknown

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

The Bible

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

The Bible

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Earl Bertrand Russell
1872 — 1970

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