Time is Money Quotes
This page discusses the relationship between time and money. It features a collection of money quotes from various sources, including famous authors, celebrities, and historical figures. The quotes explore the idea that time is more valuable than money and that how we spend our time is more important than how much money we have.
“He who works all day has no time to make money” — John D. Rockefeller
“There’s a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It’s a nonrenewable resource. Once you’ve spent it, and if you’ve spent it badly, it’s gone forever” — Neil A. Fiore
“He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he’s been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it” — Margaret Atwood
“Time and money are largely interchangeable terms” — Winston Churchill
“Use money to gain control over your time, because not having control of your time is such a powerful and universal drag on happiness. The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want to, pays the highest dividend that exists in finance” — Morgan Housel
“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each” — Christopher Rice
“If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one’s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward” — Theodor Adorno
It turns out that in every age group every single one seems to prefer having more time than more money. They also seem to prefer having experiences to possessions in most cases. And we offer below our own quote collection here showing that sentiment echoed by philosophers, authors and celebrities.
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The sad thing abut our time is that we have to attach a price tag to it
— Kora-Lea Vidal
“Time is a currency you can only spend once” — Ziad K. Abdelnour
“Give people control over their time, and they will build a great company, not for you, but with you. In the Participation Age, time is the new money” — Richard Branson
“First and foremost, money buys time and autonomy. Secondarily, it buys experiences. Last, and least, it buys stuff, and more often than not, the stuff we buy makes us miserable” — Jonathan Clements
“Money does not buy you freedom. Time does” — J.R. Rim
“If time is money, how much is a lifetime?” — Ljupka Cvetanova
“If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!” — Ljupka Cvetanova
“I cannot afford to waste my time making money” — Louis Agassiz
“Some people who buy on time don’t know when time leaves off and eternity begins” — Fay Egan
“Worrying about money makes you think about time: Dollars per hour, Salary per Year, Years to Retirement” — Douglas Coupland
Time is a waste of money — Oscar Wilde
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time — Willem de Kooning
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time” — Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life” — Michael Leboeuf
“We use up our lives making money, when we should be using our money to gain time” — Albert Camus
“We would rarely waste time if it were earned” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy” — Haruki Murakami
“Give people control over their time, and they will build a great company, not for you, but with you. In the Participation Age, time is the new money” — Richard Branson
“Do I spend time raising money or time raising hell?” — Barbara Mikulski
“Perhaps the most important use of money – It saves time. Life is so short, and there’s so much to do, one can’t afford to waste a minute” — W. Somerset Maugham
“You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well” — Jorge Luis Borges
“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go” — Josh Billings
“Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine” — George Gissing
“Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time” — George Gissing
“There comes a time when money doesn’t matter” — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money” — Abigail Van Buren
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you” — Carl Sandburg
“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use” — Samuel Johnson
“When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else” — William J.H. Boetcker
“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time” — Steve Jobs
Money comes and goes; time just goes” — Swami Raj
“Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time” — James Taylor
“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity” — Roy T. Bennett
“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid” — Alan W. Watts