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We have collected the following quotations over the years, and thought they would make you think and (hopefully) make you smile...
“There is always the temptation for financial advisers to select the product that pays them the most commission but which may not be the best for you …this has created the perception that you can't necessarily trust financial advisers.”
John Howard, chairman of the consumer panel which advises the Financial Services Authority on BBC Radio 4's Money Box (broadcast on Saturday, 16 June 2008)
“I wish I had spent more time at work.”
A quotation we cannot find on any grave stone.
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
Woody Allen
“Money is only loaned to a man. He comes into the world with nothing and he leaves with nothing.”
William Crapo Durant, founder of General Motors and Chevrolet
“Ah *****!!!”
What Colin Davison (David’s friend and mentor) would have said if he knew he was going to die at the end of the tax year.
“Tonight I’ve got dirt on my hands, but I’m building me a new home...”
Bruce Springsteen, Lucky Town
“The things I could do, if I had a little money...”
The brunette out of ABBA, Money, Money, Money
“Most clients DON’T know what they want, but they do know what they DON’T want, and what they DON’T want is anything LESS than what they’ve got NOW!!!”
Paul Armson, financial planner
“The last cheque I should write should be to the undertaker, and if Lamb and Associates are really good at their job, that cheque will bounce!”
A Lamb and Associates' client
“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
Albert Einstein
“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
Spike Milligan
“Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.”
Spike Milligan
“Widows are the greatest believers in life assurance.”
A man from the Pru
“A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
“The love of money is the root of all evil.”
Bible 1 Timothy, 6. 10.
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston Churchill
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Time... like sand, slipping through our hands.”
Van Morrison, Country Fair
“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”
W. C. Fields
“You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.”
Tennessee Williams, from the play Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
“A fool and his money are easily parted.”
Proverb
“Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
George Burns
“Money makes the world go round.”
John Kander, Fred Ebb, Money, Money from the musical Cabaret.
“Money can't buy me love.”
The Beatles, Can't Buy Me Love.
“When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I am old, I know it is.”
Oscar Wilde
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”
Winston Churchill
“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”
E. E. Cummings
“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”
Edith Wharton
“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.”
Errol Flynn
“I never worry about action, but only inaction.”
Winston Churchill
“The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.”
Evan Esar
“Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.”
Groucho Marx
“Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.”
Henry Fielding
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”
Jackie Mason
“The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.”
Katharine Whitehorn
“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.”
Ken Hakuta
“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.”
Kin Hubbard
“Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.”
Leo Rosten
“No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.”
Michael Pritchard
“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.”
Robert W. Sarnoff
“Never spend your money before you have it.”
Thomas Jefferson
“He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.”
W. Somerset Maugham of Human Bondage
“We can tell our values by looking at our chequebook stubs.”
Gloria Steinem
“There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.”
Jack Yelton
“Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.”
Author Unknown
“I cannot afford to waste my time making money.”
Louis Agassiz
“The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.”
Mad Magazine
“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
Pablo Picasso
“No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.”
Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“There are no pockets in a shroud.”
Author Unknown
“Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.”
Michael Leboeuf
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
Coco Chanel
“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
Douglas Adams, Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.”
Clifford Odets
“It's 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 that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.”
George Horace Lorimer
“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.”
Sam Ewing
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”
Bob Hope
“Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back.”
Author Unknown
“If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.”
Author Unknown
“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.”
Dan Millman
“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
Earl Wilson
“Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.”
A. A. Latimer
“Money is like manure – it’s best when it’s spread”
Sir Francis Bacon
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
Voltaire
“A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.”
Harry Lauder
“Money often costs too much.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.”
M. W. Harrison
“Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.”
H. L. Mencken
“The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.”
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.”
Zig Ziglar
“The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.”
Robert Brault
“People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.”
Doug Larson
“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894
“Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.”
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
“If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.”
George Gobel
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857
“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”
George Bernard Shaw
“If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions.”
Arthur H. Motley
“Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.”
From a Washington Post word contest
“Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, 1891
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