Quotes About Wisdom

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

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

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter!

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Work to learn. Don't work for money.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

Be stingy with your money! Don't splurge at the mall - and definitely don't give it to your boyfriend!

If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.