140 Money Quotes about Financial Freedom and Investing

Inspirational quotes sum up big thoughts in few words.  They inspire, motivate, and encourage in a unforgettable way.  Here are money quotes to emphasize important principles of financial freedom, personal finance, saving and investing.

Money Quotes

1. “Money is not god; but even not lesser than god.” ~ Invajy

2. “To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.” ~ David Bailey

3. “Spend wisely in life. Always ensure that your cost of living is less than your own income..!” ~ Invajy

4. “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” ~ Dave Ramsey

5. “If you’re saving, you’re succeeding.” ~ Steve Burkholder

6. “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.” ~ Chris Rock
7. “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” ~ Joe Biden
8. “All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health.” ~ Reba McEntire
9. “Start saving and investing early in the life. In due course of time you will see the magic of compounding.” ~ Invajy
10. “Many people earn money at the cost of health and fitness, and at later stage of life spend all that money on health issues.” ~ Invajy

Quotes about Money

11. “If you really think that the environment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.” ~ Guy McPherson
12. Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” ~ Ronald Reagan
13. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill
14. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
15. “The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.”~ Kin Hubbard

16. “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” ~ Charles Dickens
17. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~ Thomas Edison
18. “You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.” ~ Tony Robbins
19. “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
20. “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

Money Motivation Quotes

21. “The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
22. “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
23. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
24. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. “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
26. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
27. “The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.” ~ Warren Buffett
28. “I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.” ~ George Soros
29. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn
30. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” ~ Ayn Rand

Money Quotes

31. “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
32. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” ~ Donald Trump
33. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ~ Vidal Sassoon
34.  “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
35. “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
36. “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” ~ Seneca
37. “It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.” ~ Henry Ford
38. “He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
39. “Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” ~ Aristotle
40. “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

Best Money Quotes

41.  “Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” ~ P.T. Barnum
42. “Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more.” ~ Jack Benny
43. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
44. “The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.” ~ Ben Graham
45. “For many money is wealth, for me health is wealth.” ~ Invajy

46. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
47. “Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” ~ Jim Rohn
48. “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
49. “Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.” ~ Nathan W. Morris
50. “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

Money is not important Quotes

51. Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.” ~ Richard M. DeVos
52. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
53. “Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
54. “Never spend your money before you have it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
55. “The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” ~ Phillip Fisher
56. “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
57. “Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
58. “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
59. “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
60. “If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money, but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.” ~ Brigham Young

Money Quotes

61. “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
62. “Too many people spend money they earned… to buy things they don’t want… to impress people that they don’t like.” ~ Will Rogers
63. “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” ~ Jonathan Swift
64. “Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.” ~ D.H. Lawrence
65. “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” ~ Zig Ziglar
66. People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.” ~ Joan Rivers
67. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”  ~ Epictetus
68. “Money often costs too much.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. “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
70. “Frugality includes all the other virtues.” ~ Cicero

Funny Money Quotes

71. “A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.” ~ W. C. Fields
72. “A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”~ Lana Turner
73. “Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.”~ Jackie Mason
74. “Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.” ~ Dorothy Parker
75. “Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.”~ Gertrude Stein
76. “I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.”~ Henny Youngman
77. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
78. “If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.” ~ Vicki Robin
79. “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
80. “A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.” ~ John Ruskin

Financial Freedom Quotes

81. “The best thing money can buy is financial freedom” ~ Rob Berger
82. “More important than the how we achieve financial freedom, is the why. Find your reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
83. “You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.” ~ Tennessee Williams
84. “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
85. “Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.” ~ Spike Milligan
86. “Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” ~ Roger Babson
87. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ~ David Brinkley
88. “When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you’ll have financial freedom.” ~ Suze Orman
89. “Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.” ~ Carl Sandburg
90. “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

Wealth Quotes

91. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” ~ Marsha Sinetar
92. “If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
93. “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
94. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ~ Ayn Rand
95. “A treasure is to be valued for its own sake and not for what it will buy.” ~ Graham Greene
96. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
97. “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” ~ Earl Wilson
98. “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
99. “It’s easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.” ~ Craig Ferguson
100. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” ~ Coco Chanel

Money Quotes

101. “How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” ~ Robert G. Allen
102. “I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
103. “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” ~ Anonymous
104. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” ~ Jonathan Winters
105. “A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.” ~ Henry Kravis
106. “When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?” ~ Rene Rivkin
107. “If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks.” ~ John Bogle
108. “I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.” ~ Robert Bosch
109. “My old father used to have a saying:  If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
110. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Save Money Quotes

111. “The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’” ~ Sir John Templeton
112. “Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.” ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
113. “A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
114. “I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” ~ Pablo Picasso
115. “Fortune sides with him who dares.” ~ Virgil
116. “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
117. “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
118. “The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms.” ~ Chris Brogan
119. “Real wealth is not about money. Real wealth is: not having to go to meetings, not having to spend time with jerks, not being locked into status games, not feeling like you have to say ‘yes,’ not worrying about others claiming your time and energy. Real wealth is about freedom.” ~ James Clear
120. “I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.” ~ Dave Ramsey

Inspiring Money Quotes

121. “Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
122. “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” ~ Edmund Burke
123. “The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
124. “No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.” ~ Plato
125. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
126. “Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.” ~ Napoleon Hill
127. “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” ~ Albert Einstein
128. “The more you learn, the more you earn.” ~ Frank Clark
129. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
130. “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

Money Quotes

131. “Put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
132. “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” ~ Samuel Butler
133. “Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money when what they don’t know is how to use it.” ~ Frank A. Clark
134. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” ~ Peter Lynch
135. “Financial peace of mind is not determined by how much we make, but is dependent upon how much we spend!” ~ Marvin J. Ashton
136. “Money grows on the tree of persistence.” ~ Japanese Proverb
137. “There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.” ~ Marlene Dietrich
138. “Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.” ~ Henry Fielding
139. “It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
140. “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

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