Inspirational financial quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
Famous Financial Quotes
Too many people spend money they earn to buy things they don’t want to impress people that they don’t like. Will Rogers
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. Margaret Bonanno
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. Jonathan Swift
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Colin Powell
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epictetus
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Colin Powell
Money often costs too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track. Natasha Munson
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
A formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. David Feherty
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. Steve Jobs
Frugality includes all the other virtues. Cicero
There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains. William Penn
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
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. Harry Golden
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
Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. Germany Kent
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there. Kofi Annan
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
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it. Robert Kiyosaki
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
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. Tony Robbins
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. Yogi Berra
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self discipline, and effort. Jesse Owens
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
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
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
If you want to be financially free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past. Robert Kiyosaki
Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn
It’s not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Ayn Rand
Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt
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
All successful people men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one. Mark Twain
It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. Henry Ford
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. Pablo Picasso
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. Eleanor Roosevelt
It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. Jackie Joyner Kersee
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
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. George Patton
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale
Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Thomas J. Stanley
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
Be bold enough to use your voice, brave enough to listen to your heart, and strong enough to live the life you have always imagined.
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
Knowledge is power: you hear it all the time but knowledge is not power. It’s only potential power. It only becomes power when we apply it and use it. Somebody who reads a book and doesn’t apply it, they’re at no advantage over someone who’s illiterate. None of it works unless you work. We have to do our part. If knowing is half the battle, action is the second half of the battle. Jim Kwik
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
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are that’s the foundation for everything great. Jay Z
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
Spending money is much more difficult than making money. Jack Ma
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw
To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep. David Bailey
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. Robert G. Allen
Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin
I made my money the old fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. Malcolm Forbes
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack. Jack Bogle
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. P.T. Barnum
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke
Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. Jack Benny
Follow your passion; it will lead you to your purpose. Oprah Winfrey
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. Ben Graham
No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson
Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. Carrie Fisher
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. Dave Ramsey
Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day. Zig Ziglar
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
Buy land. They’re not making it anymore. Mark Twain
Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. Nathan W. Morris
Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait. Will Rogers
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. Zig Ziglar
Wealth is largely the result of habit. John Jacob Astor
Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson
Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy. Marshall Field
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. Phillip Fisher
The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient. Warren Buffett
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Benjamin Franklin
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. Steve Jobs
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
Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world. Uri Geller
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. Thomas A. Edison
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
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. Steve Jobs
The key to making money is to stay invested. Suze Orman
