WHY MONEY TALKS

As much as anyone else, I enjoy earning money and spending it on things that enhance my life and the lives of others. Although the rumor that money doesn’t buy happiness is, in fact, true, earning more money is not a total waste of time...



Having financial peace of mind can be liberating. There are enough other problems in life without having financial problems to add to them.

Top-10 Money and Wealth Goals People Have

Following is a recent list of people's Top-10 goals related to money and wealth tagged on 43Things.com:

1. Save money
2. Get out of debt
3. Become financially independent
4. Win the lottery
5. Pay off my student loans
6. Make money
7. Become a millionaire
8. Stick to a budget
9. Retire early
10. Invest money


Top-10 Quotes Anybody Ever Uttered about Why Money Talks

There are times when money talks. Following are some quotes about other ways money may add to your life.

#1 Quote about Why Money Talks

If you have money you have wisdom; if none, you are a fool.
— Turkish proverb

#2 Quote about Why Money Talks

There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it.
— Cicero

#3 Quote about Why Money Talks

It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
— Groucho Marx

#4 Quote about Why Money Talks

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
— Hebrew Bible. Ecclesiastes 10:19


#5 Quote about Why Money Talks

A rich man has no need of character.
— Hebrew proverb

#6 Quote about Why Money Talks

No man's credit is as good as his money.
— Ed Howe

#7 Quote about Why Money Talks

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
— Gregory Nunn

#8 Quote about Why Money Talks

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.
— Italian proverb

#9 Quote about Why Money Talks

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
— John Kenneth Galbraith

#10 Quote about Why Money Talks

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
— Aphra Behn



More Money Quotes about Why and Whether Money Talks

With money you’re a dragon; without it you’re a worm.
— Chinese proverb

A rich man's joke is always funny.
— Thomas Brown

He that's rich is wise.
— Daneil Defoe

An enterprizing foole needs little wit.
— English Proverb. Quoted in: Cotgrave Dictionary (1611)

If you have money, you can make the ghosts and devils turn your grind stone.
— Chinese proverb

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
— Spanish proverb

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
— Andrea Dworkin

Money no longer talks. It just goes without saying.
— George Humphrey

Her voice is full of money.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Money is a poor man's credit card.
— Marshall McLuhan

That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Good-bye."
— Richard Armour

Money talks — but credit has an echo.
— Bob Thaves

Money doesn't talk, it swears.
— Bob Dylan

When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.
— Russian proverb

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
— Author Unknown

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
— Martin Amis

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
— Bill Vaughan

It’s not money that brings happiness, it’s lots of money.
— Russian proverb

Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.
— Unknown wise person



Top-10 Things Anybody Ever Said about Any Aspects of Money Including Wealth and Prosperity

NOTE: These money quotes are adapted from the book The 777 Best Things Ever Said about Money by Ernie Zelinski. The book was published in Japanese but has never been published in English in hard copy.

#1 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said about Money, Wealth, and Prosperity

Your prosperity consciouness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent upon your prosperity consciousness.
— Louise L. Hay

#2 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said about Money, Wealth, and Prosperity

People who don't respect money don't have any.
— J. Paul Getty, Billionaire Oil Tycoon (1892-1976)

#3 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said about Money, Wealth, and Prosperity

Taking it all in, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
— Michel de Montaigne

#4 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said about Money, Wealth, and Prosperity

More money won’t bring you more happiness — It works the other way around.
— from the book Career Success WITHOUT a Real Job

#5 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said about Money, Wealth, and Prosperity

Your wealth can only grow to the extent you do.
— T. Harv Eker

#6 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said about Money, Wealth, and Prosperity

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
— Thoreau

#7 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said about Money, Wealth, and Prosperity

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a state of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.
— Mike Todd

#8 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said about Money, Wealth, and Prosperity

If a person has a hundred dollars and makes a million, that is incredible; but if a person has a hundred million dollars and makes a million, that is inevitable.
— American proverb

#9 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said about Money, Wealth, and Prosperity

A million dollars doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.
— Unknown wise person

#10 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said about Money, Wealth, and Prosperity

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
— Paul Hawken