If you are looking for quotes about money, I made a list of the most popular quotes ever wrote about finance. Some people say it so good, that there’s no point in trying to say it another way. It’s better to take the gems of their wisdom and apply it to our daily basis, so we can create the financial independence we all want and deserve.
Some might help you with a fresh insight, some might not, but all you need is one great idea to change your life. Here are 100 best money quotes of all times:
-
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. –Steve Jobs
-
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. –Malcolm Forbes
-
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. –Jonathan Swift
-
Money often costs too much. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Fortune sides with him who dares. –Virgil
-
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. –John Wayne
-
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years. –Warren Buffett
-
Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. –Jack Benny
-
It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. –Henry Ford
-
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. –Yogi Berra
-
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. –Julia Cameron
-
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. –Margaret Thatcher
-
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
-
Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like. –Will Rogers
-
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
-
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. –Ayn Rand
-
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. –Henry Kravis
-
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. –Phillip Fisher
-
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. –Albert Einstein
-
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. –Lao Tzu
-
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. –Zig Ziglar
-
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. –Charles Caleb Colton
-
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. –Roger Babson
-
Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this. –Dave Ramsey
-
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. –Thomas Edison
-
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. –T.T. Munger
-
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. –Vidal Sassoon
-
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. –Eleanor Roosevelt
-
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. –Benjamin Franklin
-
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. –Steve Jobs
-
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? –Rene Rivkin
-
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. –Benjamin Franklin
-
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. –Chris Guillebeau
-
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. –Thomas Jefferson
-
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. –Abraham Lincoln
-
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. –Kin Hubbard
-
Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. –Nathan W. Morris
-
If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it. –Kim Garst
-
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
-
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. –Jim Rohn
-
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. –Benjamin Franklin
-
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. –Norman Vincent Peale
-
The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ –Sir John Templeton
-
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. –Benjamin Franklin
-
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. –George Bernard Shaw
-
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. –Robert G. Allen
-
Screw it, Let’s do it! –Richard Branson
-
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. –P.T. Barnum
-
It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important. –Zig Ziglar
-
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. –Ben Graham
-
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 you. –Maya Angelou
-
It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. –Vince Lombardi
-
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing. –J. Paul Getty
-
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. –William A. Ward
-
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life. – Suze Orman
-
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. –Seneca
-
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. –Henry Ford
-
Never spend your money before you have it. –Thomas Jefferson
-
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey
-
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. –David Brinkley
-
The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. –Warren Buffett
-
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. –Eleanor Roosevelt
-
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. –Anonymous
-
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. –Epictetus
-
It’s 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 that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. –George Lorimer
-
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. –Henry David Thoreau
-
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. –David Feherty
-
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. –Bruce Lee
-
Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value. –Joe Biden
-
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. –Oprah Winfrey
-
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. –George Soros
-
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. –Mahatma Gandhi
-
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. –Thomas A. Edison
-
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
-
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. –Winston Churchill
-
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! –Jonathan Winters
-
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy. –Warren Buffett
-
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –Benjamin Franklin
-
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. –Dale Carnegie
-
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill
-
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. –Donald Trump
-
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. –Pablo Picasso
-
If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. –Vicki Robin
-
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. –Plato
-
If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right! –William Shatner
-
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. –J. K Rowling
-
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. –Epictetus
-
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks. –John Bogle
-
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. –Mark Twain
-
Persist – don’t take no for an answer. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years. –David Rubenstein
-
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. –Abraham Lincoln
-
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. –Franklin D. Roosevelt
-
My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. –JP Getty
-
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. –Robert Kiyosaki
-
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. –Edmund Burke
-
Frugality includes all the other virtues. –Cicero
-
It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. –Robert Kiyosaki
-
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. –Arthur Schopenhauer
Which one of these quotes did you like? Share with us in the comments below.