Henny Youngman Quotes

When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

People die millionaires. All your life, you're gonna stress money?

There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

The first time I had money, I was extravagant, but then you realise it's not just about that. If I lost it all tomorrow, it wouldn't be me that's hurt, it would be my babies. It would be more about people's opinion of me that would concern me.

I would put my million dollars up as well.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

I'd be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They're entitled to do whatever they want.

The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.

I'm not a millionaire. I have a high earning power, but I never did have any capital.

The only reason to have money is to share it with your friends and have fun.

Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Money ain't everything.