What are your favorite money proverbs?

[Alan]

I avoided the stock and bond market for a very long time, and I think this quote had something to tempt me in some 15 years ago.

"You won't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket"

 

[JPatrick]

If you want to be rich, don't live like you're rich before you're rich....

 

[gettingthere]

Don’t throw good money after bad

 

[homestead]

I can't afford to waste my time making money.

 

[flipstress]

Not really all proverbs but they're stuck in my head

My mom or my dad:
"No money, no honey"

Something trite I always used to hear:
"Time is money".

The Beatles, in a song I like:
"The best things in life are free
But you can keep them for the birds and bees
Now give me money
That's what I want
That's what I want, yeah
That's what I want..."

 

[Jake46]

"Live every day as if it is your last and pretty soon you'll be right."

 

[REWahoo]

"Live every day as if it is your last and pretty soon you'll be right."

Now there's an optometristic outlook on life if I ever saw one...

 

[Rambler]

"don't get your honey where you get your money" ....who knows where it came from...

and

"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"...used profusely by my Dad, but I'm clueless about the origination.

Rambler

 

[UncleHoney]

Don't worry, that money isn't going to burn a hole in your pocket.

 

[old woman]

Do for 5 years what most won't do and you can live better the rest of your life than most will.

It seems to work if the 5 years is education or saving money. I have seen many times where one struggled to get a good education, save for a down payment on a house, do without and get a foot hold and end up in a better place even if they don't kill themselves forever.

 

[Milton]

"Someday, you'll run out of somedays" (Beechcraft advertisement, intended to persuade the reader to treat him/herself to a Beech Baron).

 

[Siv]

I like to say:
I need more to make more....

 

[MissParker]

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest - Thoreau

 

[MissParker]

I don't know who said it first but "It takes money to make money"