Quotes on Old Money

They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.