“No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back”

“No matter how hard you hug your moeny, it never hugs (you) back” has been cited in print since 1992. The financial saying is of unknown origin.
 
 
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6 July 1992, Hendersonville (NC) Times-News, “Apple County Almanac” by Robert Ross, pg. 8A, col. 2:
No matter how hard you hug your money it can never hug back.
   
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From: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Edward Dunagin)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 08:47:00 PST
Subject: Montana news
 
No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back
   
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Date: 1999/03/09
Subject: Our Working Fibro World Update March 9 1999
 
Have you ever noticed no matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs you back ??
   
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P.S. I Love You:
When Mom Wrote She Always Saved the Best for Last
By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Thomas Nelson, Inc.
2000
Pg. ?:
“No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs you back.”
 
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Words from the Wise:
Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said
By Rosemarie Jarski
New York, NY: Skyhorse Pub.
2007
Pg. 339:
My mother said, “No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs you back.”
H. Jackson Brown
 
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10 things you aren’t telling him

By Julie Clinton
Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers
2009
Pg. 35:
No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
QUOTED IN P.S. I LOVE YOU,
COMPILED BY H/ JACKSON BROWN, JR.