The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Henry Ford

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

Henry Ford

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Henry Ford

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Henry David Thoreau

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Benjamin Franklin

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

Will Rogers

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Sallust

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Voltaire

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Samuel Johnson

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Alexis de Tocqueville

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Richard Wagner

Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

Victor Hugo

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Henry Ford

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Oscar Wilde

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Don Marquis

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Mark Twain

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Virginia Woolf