Money & Business Sayings

Let us protect the poor and the weak, for they are our brethren.

The greatest wealth is health.

I’m so poor I can’t even afford to be sick.

The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them in tears, to ride their horses and clasp their wives and daughters in your arms.

But al be that he was a philosophre, / Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

If gold ruste, what shal iren do?

And everich was worth to been an alderman, / For they hadde ynough of catel and of rente.

He was a shrewe, and a greet market-betere.

Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, Why not find a better job?

The Chinese use paper money, which is the strangest thing I have ever seen. A man can carry around his entire wealth in his sleeve!

The Sultan of Delhi gave me a robe of honor, but it was so heavy with gold that I could barely walk. I sold it the next day.

Real wealth is measured by the silence after laughter ends.

Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.

The monkeys scream on both banks—it’s unbearable!

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

They have no money, but they use salt as currency.

The people are idolaters and have a language of their own. They live by trade and industry. They have plenty of silk.

The Great Khan has a vast palace all roofed with gold and silver, and decorated with dragons and beasts and birds.

And in this country, they have a custom that when a man is about to go on a journey, he goes to a wise man, and the wise man tells him whether he will have good fortune or bad fortune.

Let those who go not put off the journey, but rent their lands and collect money for their expenses.