Money & Business Sayings

It is a thing that ever proveth, that a man's fortune is the fruit of his own virtue.

The commonwealth of Utopia is governed by very few laws; and these are so plain, that every man may understand them.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, but in this world a spell of health is the best state.

A good name is better than riches.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring?

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.

I am a poor man, and I have always been poor.

The more I think of it, the more I feel that there is something wrong with the whole business of publishing. The publishers are the real thieves.

I have no desire to be rich, only to be happy.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

I like to spend money.

I am a very bad economist.

I am a most wretched man; I am stripped of my honor, my wealth, and everything I possessed.

I have not come for such reasons. I have come to take away from them their gold and their silver, and to do with them what I will.

I will bring back the wealth of the East to Portugal.

I came to get rich, not to till the soil like a peasant.