Favorite quote or money motivator?

[LuxLiving]

President Wilson, when Governor, declared in 1911:

"The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as that exists, our old variety and freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men, who, even if their actions be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who, necessarily, by every reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom. This is the greatest question of all; and to this, statesmen must address themselves with an earnest determination to serve the long future and the true liberties of men."

[LuxLiving]

When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet. ~Nick Arnette

[LuxLiving]

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money, too." ~~Margaret Thatcher

[LuxLiving]

"Time, money, and health add to
living a margin of happiness.
The more time and money one
can reasonably save, and
the more perfect the
health, the wider the
margin of happiness."
~~Thetta Quay Franks, The Margin of Happiness - The Reward of Thrift, 1917, from Retire@50's blog

[Bookie]

"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want MOST for what we want NOW".

Quoted from a blog comment

[LuxLiving]

"This [tracking your spending] is not about following our (or anyone else’s) budgets, with standardized categories and a suggested percentage of income that should go toward each category. This is not about swearing at the beginning of each month that you’ll do better. This is not about guilt. It’s about identifying, for yourself, what you NEED as opposed to what you want, what purchases or types of purchases actually bring you fulfillment, what represents “enough” to you and what you actually spend money on." ~~Joe Dominguez, Your Money or Your Life

[lehresman]

My favorite is "money makes a poor master but an excellent slave"

[LuxLiving]

“When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating an index fund. The odds are 100 to 1.” ~David Swensen, Yale University Endowment Manager

[LuxLiving]

“Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business” ~~Franklin P. Jones

[LuxLiving]

"Men die before women. Therefore, women, make your long-term financial plans accordingly!" ~~??

[LuxLiving]

"If you give a man bread,
you nourish him once.
If you teach him to plant,
you nourish him forever."
~~Jewish proverb

[LuxLiving]

"Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor." ~~William Cobbett

[LuxLiving]

"Willful waste
brings
woeful want."

~~Thomas Fuller

[LuxLiving]

"Thrift is a wonderful virtue,
particularly in an ancestor."
~~Mark Twain

[LuxLiving]

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own." ~~Harry S. Truman

[LuxLiving]

"To get back on your feet,
miss two car payments." ~~unknown

[topwaystosave]

If a business is worth a dollar and I can buy it for 40 cents, something good may happen to me.

Warren Buffett

[LuxLiving]

"Necessity never made a good bargain." ~~French proverb

[nationalmodification]

oh my...mine would be

"Money is a good servant but a bad master" - Aristodemus

"Lack of money is the root of all evil." - George Bernard Shaw

[LuxLiving]

Not what was at first intended by the author but could also be applied to not paying attention to your budget:

"...running away from a dragon was likely to lead to a burnt arse, at the very least." ~~Andrew in "A Slave To Love", by Rebecca Campbell