101+ Best Rich Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Profoundly inspirational rich quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.

Famous Rich Quotes

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 wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

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

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm

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

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. Jim Rohn

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.

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

It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end. Billy Idol

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

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. Daniel Kahneman

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

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

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

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

Making money is common sense. It’s not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon. Robert Kiyosaki

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

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. Henry David Thoreau

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

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. Kahlil Gibran

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

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus

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

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

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 is like muck not good unless it be spread. Francis Bacon

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

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

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

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. Tim Ferriss

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

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. Ben Franklin

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

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

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

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. Gandhi

Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

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

The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money.  John Henry Jowett

When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money. Artemus Ward

God gave us wealth, not that we should be hoarders but dispensers.  Thomas Manton

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

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

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

It’s simple arithmetic: Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.  T. Harv Eker

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

Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people that they don’t like.  Will Rogers

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

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.  Kevin Gates

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art. Berthold Auerbach

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.  Warren Buffett

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience. P.T Barnum

found that wealth requires either willpower of why power, and the latter is often the real source of the former.  John Sofor

Never spend your money before you have earned it. Thomas Jefferson

Wealth can do us no good unless it help us toward heaven.  Thomas Adams

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 two great tests of character are wealth and poverty. 

Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. Françoise Sagan

The greater our wealth, the greater our dangers.  Aristotle

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. Miguel de Cervantes

Whenever wealth keeps a man from thinking about God, it is not a blessing but a curse.  John Blanchard

I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth shall starve in the process. Benjamin Harrison

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.  C. C. Colton

Money often costs too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves and always a temptation to others.  C. C. Colton

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. Simone Weil

Worldlings make gold their god; saints make God their gold.  Matthew Henry

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

Few people have the spiritual resources to be both wealthy and godly.  Erwin W. Lutzer

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is no mark of God’s favour. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.  J. C. Ryle

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options. Chris Rock

The wealthiest man is he who is contented with least.  Socrates

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some. Joe Moore

Many a man’s gold has lost him his God.  George Swinnock

Know what you own, and know why you own it. Peter Lynch

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.  Indian Proverb

Money isn’t everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen. Rita Davenport

The only difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they use their time.  Robert Kiyosaki

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

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

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.  Edward Young

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

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.  Miguel de Cervantes

Earn with your mind, not your time.  Naval Ravikant

Everyone wants 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. Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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