wise financial decisions Quotes

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.