It is important to listen to smart people when it comes to the subject of money. Here we’ve gathered our favorite quotes to help inspire and teach.
Sorted Money Quotes:
“It’s good to have money and the things 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 Horace Lorimer
“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
“Too many people spend money they earned.. to buy things they don’t want.. to impress people that they don’t like. - Will Rogers
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. - Barack Obama
“Learning to separate “happiness" from “spending money" is the quickest and most reliable way to a better life.-Mr. Money Mustache
“Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money. - Voltaire
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill
“I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails. - Hedy Lamarr
“Have the courage to set down every penny you spend, and add it up weekly. - Josephus Nelson Larned
“Some people are so poor, all they have is money. - Unknown
“Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will. - Nelson Mandela
“Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want. - Anna Lappe
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace the driver. - Ayan Rand
“Rich people stay rich by living like they’re broke. Broke people stay broke by living like they’re rich. - Unknown
“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. - Andy Warhol
“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
“When you have money, think of the time when you had none. - Japanese Proverb
“Don’t go broke trying to look rich. Act your wage. - Unknown
“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale. - Zig Ziglar
“Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. - Carl Sandburg
“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
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
“You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy. - Garth Brooks
“Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more. - Henry Ford
“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. - Richard M. DeVos
“Money often costs too much. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. - Oscar Wilde
“Debt is the slavery of the free. - Publilius Syrus
“The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. - Unknown
“A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. - Samuel Johnson
“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end. - Bob Marley
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin
“You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it. - Tennessee Williams
“Whatever you have spend less. - Samuel Johnson
“There are people who have money and people who are rich. - Coco Chanel
“For I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love. - The Beatles
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn
“Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. - Ambrose Bierce
“Enough is better than too much. - French Proverb
“You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. - Dave Ramsey
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. - Zig Ziglar
“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. - Pablo Picasso
“Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. - Nathan W. Morris
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan
“I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. - Judy Garland
“A penny saved is a penny earned. - Benjamin Franklin
“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went. - Dave Ramsey
“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
“Let’s face it, we’re not about to earn our way to wealth. That’s a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we’ll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone—no matter how big—isn’t the answer. - Tony Robbins
“Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience. - P.T Barnum
“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. - Khalil Gibran
“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
“When it comes to money, you can’t win. If you focus on making it, you’re materialistic. If you try to but don’t make any, you’re a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you’re a miser. If you make it and spend it, you’re a spendthrift. If you don’t care about making it, you’re unambitious. If you make a lot and still have it when you die, you’re a fool–for trying to take it with you. The only way to really win with money is to hold it loosely–and be generous with it to accomplish things of value. - JOHN C. MAXWELL
“When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money. - Artemus Ward
“Money can buy you everything to fill your time, but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time. - Carew Papritz
“You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you. - Tony Robbins
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale
“So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal wlth one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? - Ayan Rand
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. - Jim Rohn
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. - Donald Trump
“Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail. - Henry Wheeler Shaw
“Before you make any purchase, ask yourself if you really need it. In most cases your life won’t be any less full or rich without it, and every dollar you save will reduce your ecological footprint. - Kim McKay & Jenny Bonin
“Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it. - Donald Trump
“At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did? - Tony Robbins
“Debt is dumb. Cash is king. - Dave Ramsey
“At the end of the day, it’s all about money. - Garry Kasparov