85+ Of The Best Money Quotes – To Get You Motivated And Inspired
The wise words of creative, smart and witty people can help spark change, happiness and curiosity. The best money quotes might shift your financial mindset, inspire you or keep you motivated towards your goals.
I’m a sucker for a good quote.
Whether it’s on a calendar, framed piece of art or one of those daily quote apps, it’s amazing how a couple quick lines can carry so much power.
From Warren Buffett and Oprah to former Presidents and some of Hollywood’s greatest films, there are amazing quotes on money coming from various walks of life.
Here are 85+ of the best money quotes to help get you inspired and motivated (or cracking a smile).
Warren Buffett Money Quotes
“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1”
“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”
“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”
“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”
“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.”
Ben Franklin Money Quotes
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”
“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
Money Quotes From Oprah
“If you can get paid for doing what you love, every paycheck is a bonus. Give yourself the bonus of a lifetime: Pursue your passion. Discover what you love. Then do it!”
“When you free yourself from debt, you create space to purchase with purpose – to add things to your life that are meaningful.”
“When you define yourself by the things you can acquire rather than see what you really need to be happy and fulfilled, you’re not just living beyond your means or overextending yourself. You’re living a lie.”
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
Albert Einstein Money Quotes
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.”
“I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it.”
“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
“It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
Money Quotes From Movies
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s— we don’t need.” – Fight Club
“Let me tell you something. There’s no nobility in poverty. I’ve been a poor man, and I’ve been a rich man. And I choose rich every f#*%@ng time.” – The Wolf Of Wall Street
“Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil doesn’t f—ing have any.” – Boiler Room
“Ever wonder why fund managers can’t beat the S&P 500? ‘Cause they’re sheep, and sheep get slaughtered.” – Wall Street
“Show me the MONEY!” – Jerry Maguire
“Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period. All right?” – The Pursuit Of Happiness
“Lesson number one: Don’t underestimate the other guy’s greed.” – Scarface
Charlie Munger Money Quotes
“The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting.”
“A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.”
“Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.”
“Being smart and doing something that no one has done before are two different things.”
“Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets and can be lost in a heartbeat.”
Other Financial Guru Money Quotes
“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.” – Ben Graham
“I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I’m successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets“. – Suze Orman
“I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.” – Malcolm Forbes
“It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.” – Robert J. Shiller
“When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.” – Peter Lynch
“You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you’re not ready, you won’t do well in the markets.” – Peter Lynch
Presidential Money Quotes
“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
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” – Ronald Reagan
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Never spend money before you have it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” – Donald Trump
“My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.” – Abraham Lincoln
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” – Thomas Jefferson
Money Quotes From Famous Inventors
“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
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty are not worth much.” – Henry Ford
“Genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other opinions drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become.” – Steve Jobs
Hollywood Actors And Actress Money Quotes
“Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.” – Chris Rock
“Carpe per diem – seize the check.” – Robin Williams
“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
“If you’ve got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve got 71 cents left. But if you’ve got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve still got seventeen grand. There’s a math lesson for you.” – Steven Martin
“While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” – Groucho Marx
Money Quotes From Authors
“Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.” – Mark Twain
“Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.” – JK Rawling
“Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19 [pounds], 19 [shillings] and six [pence] result happiness. Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20 pounds ought and six, result misery.” – Charles Dickens
“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.” – Napoleon Hill
“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” – Margaret Bonnano
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” – Oscar Wilde
“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
“Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.” – Timothy Ferriss
“Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.” – Samuel Johnson
Money Quotes On Investing
“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.” – Ben Graham
“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
“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” – Robert G. Allen
“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
“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” – Phillip Fisher
Money Quotes On Giving Back
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Mohammed Ali
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by: I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.” – Mother Teresa
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
“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
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.” -Zig Ziglar
Money Quotes On Wealth
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” – Edmund Burke
“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.” – Margaret Thatcher
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life”. – Henry David Thoreau
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” – Edmund Burke
Funny Money Quotes
“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.” – Kin Hubbard
“I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.” – Douglas Adams.
“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.” – Bill Murray
“Dogs have no money. Isn’t that amazing? They’re broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? No Pockets.” – Jerry Seinfeld
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit” – George Carlin
In Closing…The Best Money Quotes
There we have it.
85+ of the best money quotes from a cast of characters from around the world covering a collection of decades and different walks of life.
I will round this list out with one of my all-time favorite quotes. It isn’t one of the best money quotes per say, but it’s a powerful statement on life.
“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein.
What are your best money quotes?
Are there any quotes you have framed on your walls or saved as your phone wallpapers?
Let me know in the comments below.
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And he actually ordered me lunch due to the fact that I found
it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this….
Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanx for spending the time to
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