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A penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Preface, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1758)
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. [//www.archive.org/download/littlemasterpiec00fran/littlemasterpiec00fra
- Time
Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Wisdom
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.
Milton Friedman1912–2006The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory (1970)
- Economics
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost1874–1963
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016The Observer, “Sayings of the Week”, August 28, 1957
- Men
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Oliver Goldsmith1728–1774The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
- Economics
I paid too much for it, but it’s worth it.
Samuel Goldwyn1882–1974
Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 157 (p. 89)
- Business
What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.
David Graeber1961–2020Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Twelve, “1971–The Beginning…”, p. 391
- Economics