Money and business quotes

If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea!

Empty pockets never held anyone back... it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.

Legacy is greater than currency.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself.

How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it.

Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

How many things I have no need of!

Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Price is what you pay; value is what you get.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

We don't want to make our money selling things that are bad for people.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

Money is only a tool in business. It is just a part of the machinery.

Control your expenses better than your competition.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

Put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.

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

Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique.

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

Seek wealth, not money or status.

You're not going to get rich renting out your time.

A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

I always count my blessings, more than I count my money.

It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.