Great quotes capture big ideas in very few words. They inspire, educate, motivate, and encourage in a striking way. I use such quotes to derive important principles of personal finance and investing. Going with this spirit, I have assembled the top 50 quotes about money and money management.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. -Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. – Epictetus
I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too. – Steve Martin
Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like. – Will Rogers
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. -Ayn Rand
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
It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. -Henry Ford
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
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
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
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. -Steve Jobs
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. -P.T. Barnum
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. -Anonymous
Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. -Jack Benny
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. -Henry David Thoreau
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. -Ben Graham
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. -Dave Ramsey
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
Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. -Nathan W. Morris
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. -Zig Ziglar
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
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
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. -Thomas A. Edison
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. -David Brinkley
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Gandhi
Never spend your money before you have earned it. -Thomas Jefferson
If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of Car payments. -Earl Wilson
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. -Henry Taylor
Rule no. 1: Never lose money. Rule no. 2: Never forget rule no.1. – Warren Buffet
Money management is the only strategy to survive in this crazy, stupid and doped financial world market. -William C. Brown
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. -Benzamin Franklin
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. -Benjamin Franklin
Money is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse – very powerful and always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity. -Dave Ramsey
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 your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! -Jonathan Winters
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. -Henry Kravis
The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. -Warren Buffett
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. -George Soros
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? -Rene Rivkin
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. -Pablo Picasso
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. -Arthur Schopenhauer
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. -Plato
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. -Jonathan Swift
Fortune sides with him who dares. –Virgil
If you don’t know how to care for money, money will stay away from you. -Robert Kiyosaki
Money moves from those who don’t mange it those who do. -Dave Ramsey
The best thing money can buy for you is financial freedom. -Me
