While deepening my studies on Savings, I decided to research what a few famous people have said about money and saving. Here are some of the famous ones:
- The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. –T.T. Munger
- Too many people spend money they earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like. –Will Rogers
- A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. –Jonathan Swift
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. –Epictetus
- Money often costs too much. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Frugality includes all the other virtues. –Cicero
- Save one-third, live on one-third and give away one-third. – Angelina Jolie
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –Benjamin Franklin
- I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy. –Warren Buffett.
- Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result in happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result in misery. –Charles Dickens
- Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. –Ayn Rand
- Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this. –Dave Ramsey
- It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. –George Lorimer
- Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. –Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. –P.T. Barnum
- Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. –Jack Benny
- You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey
- Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. –Zig Ziglar
- Never spend your money before you have it. –Thomas Jefferson
- It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. –Robert Kiyosaki
- Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” –Joe Biden
- If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. –Vicki Robin
- Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. –William A. Ward
- It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. –J. K Rowling
- I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. –Pablo Picasso
- If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. –Edmund Burke
- Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it. – William Somerset Maugham
- If you’re saving, you’re succeeding. ― Steve Burkholder
- The best thing money can buy is financial freedom. – Eyo O. Eyo
Agree?
Quite deep and thoughtful references. Got me doing quick self-assessment and...
Thank you, Abayomi. We all need to be wise
Good talk. Someone has to wise. Thanks