Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money.

Money is only important when you don't have any.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

He that is rich is wise.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

If you've lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can't help you become rich.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

First I was rich, then I was poor, now I am rich, again and I want to stay that way.

I never grew up with money, and I never wanted a lot of material things.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it’s a lovely thing to have around the house.