Intelligent Quotes

“For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.”

“Remember that Time is Money.”

“In short, the Way to Wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the Way to Market. It depends chiefly on two Words, Industry and Frugality; i.e. Waste neither Time nor Money, but make the best Use of both. He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets (necessary Expences excepted) will certainly become Rich.”

“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”

“Best use of money is to pay debts.”

“Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.”

“Just as animals flourish in niches, people who specialize in the business world—and get very good because they specialize—frequently find good economics that they wouldn’t get any other way.”

“Money and good manners make the gentleman.”

“For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe, the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.”

“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider.”

“It is commonly observed, that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery, or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and, with the rapid wealth, come rapid claims: which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.”

“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”

“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn a living at it.”

“I have never seen the philosopher’s stone that turns lead into gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a man’s gold into lead.”

“The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo; as if, after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.”

“Buy what thou hast no need of; and e’er long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.”

“If you’d know the value of money, go and borrow some.”

“Lend money to an enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a friend and thou’lt lose him.”

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.”

“If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.”

“You don’t need to take the last dollar.”

“To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople; to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.”

“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”