97 Money Quotes That Changed My Life

1. If you don’t respect your money, it will soon fall into the hands of somebody who does. — Ted Goslin.

2. Be greedy when others are fearful. Be fearful when others are greedy. — Warren Buffett.

3. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. — Benjamin Franklin.

4. Too many people spend money they earned, on things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. — Will Rogers.

5. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. — Epictetus.

6. Money often costs too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

7. 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.8. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. — Jonathan Swift.

9. Frugality includes all the other virtues. — Cicero.

10. It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. — David Feherty.

11. No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. — Plato.

12. When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? — Rene Rivkin.

13. Fortune sides with he who dares. — Virgil.

14. I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. — Pablo Picasso.

15. My formula for success is to rise early, work late and strike oil. — JP Getty.

16. The four most expensive words in the English language are, “this time, it’s different.” — Sir John Templeton.

17. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. — Edmund Burke.

18. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks. — John Bogle.

19. My father used to have a saying: “If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.” — Abraham Lincoln.

20. Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. — Arthur Schopenhauer.

21. It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt.

22. Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn.

23. 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.

24. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. — Yogi Berra.

25. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. — Thomas Edison.

26. Annual income: twenty pounds. Annual expenditure: nineteen pounds sixty. Result: happiness. Annual income: twenty pounds. Annual expenditure: twenty pounds. Result: misery. — Charles Dickens.

27. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. — Ayn Rand.

28. Many people take no care of money until they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

29. I never attempt to make money in 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.

30. Money has 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.

31. 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.

32. If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. — Chris Guillebeau.

33. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — Lao Tzu.

34. I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong. I basically have survived by recognising my mistakes. — George Soros.

35. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. — Theodore Roosevelt.

36. Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

37. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. — Benjamin Franklin.

38. 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.

39. The stock market is designed to take money from the active to the patient. — Warren Buffett.

40. Do the things 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.

41. If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a lot of patience. you stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigour. — Charlie Munger.

42. If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. — George Bernard Shaw.

43. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca.

44. 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 & ability. — Henry Ford.

45. It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. — Henry Ford.

46. 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. — JP Getty.

47. He who loses money, loses much. He who loses a friend, loses much more. He who loses faith, loses all. — Eleanor Roosevelt.

48. 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.

49. 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.

50. 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.

51. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. — Norman Vincent Peale.

52. Success is walking from failure to failure, with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill.

53. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee.

54. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. — Vidal Sassoon.

55. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. — Dale Carnegie.

56. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. — Donald Trump.

57. The question isn’t who is going to let me. It’s who is going to stop me. — Ayn Rand.

58. A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. — Henry Kravis.

59. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. — Robert Kiyosaki.

60. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar.

61. 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.

62. If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! — Jonathan Winters.

63. Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. — Abraham Lincoln.

64. Rich people have small TV’s and big libraries. Poor people have big TV’s and small libraries. — Zig Ziglar.

65. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. — Robert G. Allen.

66. Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. — Nathan W. Morris.

67. I made money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. — Malcolm Forbes.

68. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. — Paul Samuelson.

69. The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. — Anonymous.

70. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. — Steve Jobs.

71. You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. — Dave Ramsey.

72. Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant. — P.T. Barnum.

73. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. — Thomas Jefferson.

74. Try to save something while your salary is small. It’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. — Jack Benny.

75. The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. — Ben Graham.

76. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. — Henry David Thoreau.

77. It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — J.K. Rowling.

78. Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticise, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. — William A. Ward.

79. 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.

80. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill.

81. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Mahatma Gandhi.

82. Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wants more. — Charles Caleb Colton.

83. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. — John Wayne.

84. Not everything that can be counted, counts. Not everything that counts, can be counted. — Albert Einstein.

85. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson.

86. It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognises the challenge and does something about it. — Vince Lombardi.

87. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. — David Brinkley.

88. It’s not the situation, but how we react or respond to the situation that’s important. — Zig Ziglar.

89. Never spend money before you have it. — Thomas Jefferson.

90. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. — Vicki Robin.

91. The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. — Phillip Fisher.

92. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. — Benjamin Franklin.

93. The habit of saving is 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.

94. It’s not how much money you make, but how much you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. — Robert Kiyosaki.

95. 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.

96. I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. — Thomas A. Edison.

97. Stop spending your spare time escaping the life you have. Start spending your spare time building the life you want. — Ted Goslin.

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