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Quotes about money, wealth and what they are really worth. This hand-picked collection brings together 27 of the finest money quotes ever written — from Oscar Wilde, Socrates, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

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

— Oscar Wilde

Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

— Socrates

Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

— Henry David Thoreau

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Who, being loved, is poor?

— Oscar Wilde

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

— Victor Hugo

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

— Epictetus

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

— Epicurus

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Oscar Wilde

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Seneca

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

— Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.

— Benjamin Franklin

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

— Andrew Carnegie

May there always be work for your hands to do. May your purse always hold a coin or two.

— Irish Blessing

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Bertrand Russell

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

— Benjamin Franklin

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

— Epicurus

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

Retirement is the only time in your life when time no longer equals money.

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