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Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« on: August 24, 2013, 07:40:27 PM »
After a quick (and far from exhaustive) search, I didn't see a thread of favorite money-related quotes, so here we go...

I saw this today on another blog and thought it was a good one:

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."  -William Morris

Maybe not money-related per se, but great for those of the frugal and/or minimalist mindset.

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2013, 08:12:22 PM »
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau

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« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2013, 10:23:11 PM »
"The Majesty of Simplicity"-Taylor Larimore from Bogleheads.org

"Anyone can afford anything but no one can afford everything."
Don't know the source on that one but it helps me a lot with my keep up with the Jones tendencies.

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2013, 10:58:01 PM »

             "It's not what you earn that counts, it's what sticks to your palm."

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2013, 01:19:21 AM »
“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful”
― Warren Buffett

This applies to a lot more than finance.

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2013, 03:57:47 AM »
Keep away from all unjust gains, and do not be too attached even to honest income. Put it to good use and let the poor share in it as much as possible.

St Gregory Palamas, Homilies, p.83.

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« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2013, 06:12:08 AM »
For the man who has everything, a calendar to remind him of when the payments are due.

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« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2013, 10:52:05 AM »
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau

Walden is such a wonderful book.

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« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2013, 11:21:42 AM »
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body. - George Carlin

And, not exactly money related, but MMM-related:

You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic. - Unknown

Comparison is the thief of joy.
- Theodore Roosevent

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2013, 01:52:13 PM »
"It's not how much we have, it's how much we enjoy that defines happiness."

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2013, 09:43:49 PM »
Mr Micawber's famous recipe for happiness:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2013, 10:04:10 PM »
"Money doesn't solve all your problems but it solves your money problems."

-James Altucher (this is the attribution I've seen, but not sure if original)

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2013, 01:06:39 AM »
I don't know what book I read this in but something like:

"When I see a young guy driving around in a fancy sports car I think, there he goes, driving his net worth down the road"

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« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2013, 09:16:00 PM »
"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe" -- attributed to Einstein

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« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2013, 09:49:23 PM »
Who dares despise the day of small beginnings.

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« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2013, 02:01:59 AM »

   Money is not everything, but life's a bitch without it.

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« Reply #16 on: August 27, 2013, 02:17:05 PM »
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. - Einstein

Price is what you pay, value is what you get. - Buffett

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2013, 08:39:35 PM »
Man to friend:  If you could learn to serve the king you wouldn't have to live on rice and beans.
Friend to man: If you could learn to live on rice and beans you wouldn't have to serve the king.

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #18 on: August 29, 2013, 01:40:36 AM »
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body. - George Carlin

I think this is my favourite. Humour all the way for me.

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« Reply #19 on: August 29, 2013, 03:18:34 PM »
My two favorites from Jacob at ERE:

Quote
Money is opportunity. Opportunity is power. Power is freedom. And freedom means responsibility. Without responsibility, eventually there is no freedom, no power, no opportunities, and no money. More importantly, freedom is more than power. Power is more than opportunity. Opportunity is more than money. And money is more than something that just buys stuff. It is simple to understand but hard to remember, but do remember this if nothing else.

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Most people have been told
what to think and what to think about,
Most people have been rewarded by focusing on
what they have been told to focus on.
Most people, therefore, are not curious.

Most people are told
what to do and get rewarded accordingly
Most people follow
procedures and tradition.
Most people, therefore, are not creative.

Most people hope
that their dreams will come true
Most people believe in
positive thinking
Most people, therefore, believe in magic, but wishing or praying does not make things true.

Most people look to
others for clues.
Most people prefer
to hide in the crowd.
Most people, therefore, are not independent.

Most people do not
ask questions.
Most people adopt
the opinion of pundits and the advice of experts.
Most people, therefore, do not think for themselves, but rely on others to do it for them.

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #20 on: August 29, 2013, 07:22:11 PM »
"I'm not here to go into debt to impress a neighbor I don't like."

Found that one today atop a list of "unintentionally inspirational quotes"...worth perusing to reload the optimism gun:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1lbldn/reddit_what_is_the_most_unintentionally_profound/

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #21 on: August 16, 2016, 04:49:06 AM »
I hope you don't mind reviving an old topic.. My favourite quote is by John D. Rockefeller and I believe it's entirely true and applies to MMM lifestyle too: “I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." JDR

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« Reply #22 on: August 16, 2016, 05:30:57 AM »
Heard on the radio years and years ago:

"If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall."

The only other place I've ever come across this quote is in the book "Marriage and Money, God's Way" by Howard Dayton, and he didn't attribute it to anybody.

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« Reply #23 on: August 16, 2016, 06:27:51 AM »
I have my own quote I have told friends about my frugality.

"I worry about money, so I do not have to worry about it"

Kind of goes back to the "it does not matter how much you earn, but what sticks to your palm". If you pay little attention to your money then you will find yourself with none of it, is kind of what I am going for.

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« Reply #24 on: August 16, 2016, 08:14:20 AM »
"A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." - OScar Wilde

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” – Benjamin Franklin.

"Buy once, cry once."

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #25 on: August 16, 2016, 09:25:53 AM »
"You can't always get what you want"- The Rolling Stones

"A penny saved is a penny earned"- Benjamin Franklin

"I like money"- The movie Idiocracy




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« Reply #26 on: August 16, 2016, 09:37:12 AM »
"There is a leisure class at both ends of the social spectrum" -- Eric Beck, climber, Camp 4, Yosemite National Park


Don't confuse having a career for having a life.

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« Reply #27 on: August 16, 2016, 02:23:05 PM »
"Money (or sex) is like oxygen.  It's only a problem if you don't have any."

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

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« Reply #28 on: August 16, 2016, 03:24:04 PM »
Stole this gem from someone on the forums, I keep a folder with quotes I find to be awesome. Many lifted from Mustachians but sadly since it is for personal use I never saved who it was from.

“I think a lot of people don't choose to live like this (Mustachian) because they don't realize that it's not about the money itself, but about the choices it gives you.  I learned early on that feeling like you have a choice--whether to go to work or quit, whether you walk to work or drive (or call a cab), can make all the difference between utter misery and happiness (or at the least cheerful resignation).  I know personally, I wasn't nearly as happy when I *had* to ride my bike to work every day, rain or shine, no matter how foul the weather, because I had no other choice.  But now, I choose to ride--and if I want to, I can choose to drive, or call a cab--and somehow that makes all the difference in the world, even when the weather is crappy.

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« Reply #29 on: August 16, 2016, 04:23:36 PM »
"Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool, or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put." —Lewis H. Lapham

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« Reply #30 on: August 16, 2016, 05:35:10 PM »
Be the rich relative you always wish you had.

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« Reply #31 on: August 16, 2016, 10:52:07 PM »
"Disregard females. Acquire currency." - Christopher George Latore Wallace

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« Reply #32 on: August 16, 2016, 11:35:48 PM »
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." - Warren Buffett

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« Reply #33 on: August 17, 2016, 07:28:22 AM »
"Disregard females. Acquire currency." - Christopher George Latore Wallace

HAHA! Good ol' Biggie :D

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« Reply #34 on: August 17, 2016, 08:00:19 AM »
"Disregard females. Acquire currency." - Christopher George Latore Wallace

I love this one! Good life advice.

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« Reply #35 on: August 18, 2016, 09:02:01 AM »
"The things you own, end up owning you"

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

"It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything"

"We buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like"

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"We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra. 

Narrator: Martha Stewart.

Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's all going down, man. So fuck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns."
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This is all from the movie Fight Club, I encourage any of you who have not watched this movie to see it, and if you've only seen it once, watch it again. This movie is NOT about guys fighting, but very much about what MMM teaches us. It is by far one of the most brilliant movies I've ever seen and SO many people just didn't get it.


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« Reply #36 on: August 18, 2016, 11:14:53 AM »
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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Re: Share your favorite financial/money quotes
« Reply #37 on: August 18, 2016, 01:19:33 PM »
“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful”
― Warren Buffett

This applies to a lot more than finance.

Oh.my.god.  That was my grandfather's favorite thing to say about money.  And, right up until this moment, I thought he made it up!

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« Reply #38 on: August 18, 2016, 01:23:10 PM »
"A fool and his money will soon be parted"

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« Reply #39 on: August 18, 2016, 01:42:48 PM »
Rich people don't pay interest, they collect it.

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« Reply #40 on: August 18, 2016, 01:58:25 PM »
I'll quote what my dad said to my self-absorbed former teen self when I came home from a shopping trip at the mall.
Me: Dad I saved $20 on this sweater!
Dad: You didn't save, you spent.

I've never forgotten it and it made me into the saver that I am today.

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« Reply #41 on: August 18, 2016, 02:04:22 PM »
It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got - Sheryl Crow.

Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves - Unknown.

Can I pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today - Wimpy :-)

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« Reply #42 on: August 18, 2016, 04:06:02 PM »
..."short arms and deep pockets" - The GZA

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« Reply #43 on: August 20, 2016, 08:11:04 PM »
Growing up, my grandma would give me a little money, maybe $5 or $10 when I saw her and she would always say that you have to "save a little, spend a little and give a little" .

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« Reply #44 on: August 20, 2016, 08:25:34 PM »
"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money."

(Robin Williams)

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« Reply #45 on: August 20, 2016, 08:28:45 PM »
Oh I couldn't resist a Yogi Berra quote:

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore"

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« Reply #46 on: August 20, 2016, 08:44:18 PM »
"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money."

(Robin Williams)

One of my favorites lol.  I was just having a conversation of what's wrong with kids these days.  No one does respectable drugs anymore.  All you hear about is these damn bath salts and k12. 

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« Reply #47 on: August 20, 2016, 08:46:11 PM »
"Compound interest works both ways."

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« Reply #48 on: August 20, 2016, 08:53:12 PM »
Malcolm Forbes was asked what color his yacht was, and he replied, "Green and tan, the color of money."

Have no idea why I have remembered that for 20 something years or more.

I saw this thread, remembered Forbes quote, and then I realized that the color scheme on our rental houses is a green outside and a beige inside.


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« Reply #49 on: August 20, 2016, 09:45:12 PM »
"Never take financial advice from someone who is still working."
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