30 most common proverbs that influence our financial habits

The Romanian people have created, but also adopted proverbs about money. As with any other people, over time, messages have been transmitted from one generation to another, through what we call proverbs. These either motivate us to do a certain thing or demotivate us; as is the case with work, for example. If we talk about work (it is part of financial education 😊) we find proverbs that motivate us to work and help us to be dignified in our work, such as: “Work is a golden bracelet”, but there are also proverbs that demotivate us to work, such as: “leave for tomorrow what you can do today!” (if you knew the one with the negation in front of the phrase it is perfect, but there is this one too) or: “No one got rich on honest work.” which makes you stop working… or not honestly, in any case.

That’s why we’ve selected 15 proverbs that help you become financially educated and 15 proverbs that don’t help you become financially educated, but rather demotivate you to do so.

Let’s see them!

15 proverbs that help you become financially educated

• Never spend your money before you have it.
• Money has a place in every yard.
• Save your pennies, the big money will take care of itself.

• Money doesn’t grow on trees.

• Money is round: it rolls around until it finds an owner.
• Money has no tail. If you throw it away, you have no reason to grab it.
• It is not an art to earn money, but it is an art to know how to manage it.
• With money you can buy a watch, but you cannot buy time.
• Don’t work so hard that there is no time left to earn money.
• A fool can earn money, but only a wise man can keep it.
• Money is a small wheel that makes the whole world go round.
• Don’t marry for money. You can borrow them cheaper.
• He who does not respect a penny is not worthy of a bigger penny.
• Bun by bun builds a house.
• He who saves money lives without worries.

 

15 proverbs that do not help you become financially educated

• Money is the devil’s eye.
• Money makes a man a non-man.
• Money is dirt on your hands; when you wash it, it goes away.
• Money makes money.
• Money does not bring happiness.
• Bun for bun attracts and lice for lice.
• You have money – You have friends. You have no money – You have no friends.
• Money teaches a man what to do in life.

• Why do you get richer, that’s why you get drier.

• Money, the joy of the stingy.
• Only when the last tree dies, the last worm is poisoned, and the last fish is caught, will we realize that money cannot be eaten.
• If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the kind of people he gives it to.
• As it came, so it went.
• Too much wealth makes people stupid.

In life, choose to do what helps you to reach what you set out to do; to achieve your financial goals. As you can see, the world is divided and “helps you” as it knows how. If you talk to someone who means well to you, but doesn’t know much about money, then, without any bad intention, they are demotivating you to become financially prosperous, to evolve and to achieve your goals. That’s why they say: “be careful who you surround yourself with”, because depending on who you surround yourself with, that’s how you will be or you define yourself by the group of people you spend time with, and if they don’t look like you, you will soon end up looking like them because you will change and be like them. “Those who look alike, flock together!” So I invite you to be part of the group of financially educated people and join us here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/psihologiabanilor

 

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