Money.
A source of stress and unhappiness. But also a source of freedom and of opportunity.
Like a lot of people I have experienced plenty of both sides.
But learning more about money and how to manage it has over the years definitely reduced my stress, made me more motivated and has made my life easier.
And in today’s post I’d like to share 173 of the most powerful, funny, helpful and insightful money quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here that will give you a jolt of motivation, a handful of useful ideas for your own mindset and help you to make your life a bit lighter and easier both through challenging times and better times.
Motivational Money Quotes for the Hustle Mindset
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
– Bruce Lee
“The more you learn, the more you earn.”
– Warren Buffett
“Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first.”
– Naval Ravikant
“Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target.”
– T. Harv Eker
“Money grows on the tree of persistence.”
– Japanese Proverb
“Where the determination is, the way can be found.”
– George S. Clason
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
“Earn with your mind, not your time.”
– Naval Ravikant
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
– Jim Rohn
“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
“To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.”
– David Bailey
“Money moves from those who do not manage it to those who do.”
– Dave Ramsey
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.”
– Warren Buffett
“My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil.”
– J. Paul Getty
“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
“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
– Virgil
“It’s simple arithmetic: ‘Your income can grow only to the extent you do’.”
– T. Harv Eker
“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.”
– Nelson Mandela
“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
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
– Warren Buffett
Inspirational Money Quotes and Sayings for Success
“The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms.”
– Chris Brogan
“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
“The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.”
– James Madison
“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
“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
“Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success – and success is in direct proportion to our service.”
– Earl Nightingale
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
“If you make meaning, you’ll make money.”
– Guy Kawasaki
“If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”
– Warren Buffett
“Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.”
– William Somerset Maugham
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill
“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
“If you want to get rich, remember that the way to do it is via equity, not salary.”
– Sam Altman
“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
“Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
– John Wooden
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
– Robert Kiyosaki
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
– Miguel de Cervantes
“Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it by doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.”
– T. Harv Eker
“The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.”
– Peter Diamandis
“It’s not about the money. It’s about the life I want to live.”
– Unknown
“The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.”
– Warren Buffett
“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
– Bette Davis
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”
– Sam Walton
“Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something.”
– Mark Zuckerberg
“Rich people believe ‘I create my life’. Poor people believe ‘Life happens to me’.”
– T. Harv Eker
“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
Aesthetic Money Quotes with Deep Truths
“Real wealth is not about money. Real wealth is: not having to go to meetings, not having to spend time with jerks, not being locked into status games, not feeling like you have to say ‘yes’, not worrying about others claiming your time and energy. Real wealth is about freedom.”
– James Clear
“Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.”
– Chris Rock
“The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Money doesn’t buy happiness – it buys freedom.”
– Naval Ravikant
“Money 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
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
– Erich Fromm
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
– Edmund Burke
“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
“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
– Jim Rohn
“Money often costs too much.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“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
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
– Epictetus
“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.”
– Plato
“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
“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
“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.”
– Unknown
“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
“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
“He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself.”
– Alan Watts
Funny Money Quotes with Hilarious Humor
“I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.”
– Malcolm Forbes
“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
“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.”
– Kin Hubbard
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
– Jim Carrey
“When I had money everyone called me brother.”
– Polish Proverb
“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”
– J. Paul Getty
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”
– Bob Hope
“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
– Pablo Picasso
“It’s amazing how fast later comes when you buy now.”
– Milton Berle
“Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.”
– Robin Williams
“I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.”
– George Carlin
“Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
– Françoise Sagan
“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
“The trick is to stop thinking of it as ‘your’ money.”
– IRS auditor
“When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.”
– Artemus Ward
“Dogs have no money. Isn’t that amazing? They’re broken their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No pockets.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
“I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention.”
– Ron Kittle
“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
– Earl Wilson
“Money is the best deodorant.”
– Elizabeth Taylor
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.”
– Unknown
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin
“Money talks…but all mine ever says is goodbye.”
– Unknown
“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.”
– Richard Friedman
“Does running out of money count as exercise?”
– Unknown
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”
– Robert Graves
Money Quotes for Kids for Healthy Foundations
“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.”
– Joe Moore
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
– Jonathan Swift
“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”
– Dave Ramsey
“Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.”
– Warren Buffett
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Stop buying things you don’t need, to impress people you don’t even like.”
– Suze Orman
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more.”
– Jack Benny
“You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.”
– Dave Ramsey
“The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.”
– Unknown
“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
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.”
– Nathan W. Morris
“Know what you own, and know why you own it.”
– Peter Lynch
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.”
– P.T. Barnum
“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
“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”
– Roger Babson
“Always plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”
– Richard Cushing
“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
– Dolly Parton
Wealth Quotes on Old Money and Getting Rich
“It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.”
– Robin Leach
“The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’”
– Sir John Templeton
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris – I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it.”
– Charlie Munger
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
– Coco Chanel
“The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.”
– Jim Rohn
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
– P. J. O’Rourke
“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.”
– Warren Buffett
“What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.”
– Gordon Gekko (from the movie Wall Street)
“In the Middle Ages, the rich spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries, whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today, the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments while the less well go into debt buying cars and televisions they don’t really need.”
– Yuval Noah Harari
“There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money.”
– Alan Watts
“Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.”
– Naval Ravikant
“If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you’ll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you’ll end up mighty comfortable.”
– T. Harv Eker
“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.”
– George S. Clason
“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.”
– Ben Graham
“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.”
– Robert G. Allen
“Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack.”
– Jack Bogle
“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.”
– Phillip Fisher
“If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks.”
– John Bogle
“Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it.”
– Frank A. Clark
“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
“The key to making money is to stay invested.”
– Suze Orman
“Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“A sign of wealth: No longer needing an alarm clock to wake up.”
– Greg Isenberg
“Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.”
– Warren Buffett
Short Money Quotes
“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
– Paul Newman
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Money is power.”
– Unknown
“Money is like fire.”
– P.T. Barnum
“Money is like muck – not good unless it be spread.”
– Francis Bacon
“A man in debt is so far a slave.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Money talks.”
– Unknown
“It does not take money to make money.”
– Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Money doesn’t change people. It unmasks them.”
– Unknown
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
– Ayn Rand
“Don’t get serious about your money, you will never have serious money.”
– Grant Cardone
“All money is a matter of belief.”
– Adam Smith
“Money may be spent but never squandered.”
– Li Ka Shing
“Not everything that counts can be counted.”
– Albert Einstein
“Don’t go broke trying to go rich.”
– Unknown
“Be your money’s master, not its slave.”
– Publilius Syrus
“Wealth flows from energy and ideas.”
– William Feather
“Rich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus on obstacles.”
– T. Harv Eker
“Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.”
– Ted Turner
“Words are the money of fools.”
– Thomas Hobbes
“In times of crisis, cash is king.”
– Ricardo Salinas Pliego
“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
– Andy Warhol
“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”
– Milton Friedman
“Money can’t buy life.”
– Bob Marley
“Money is a kind of poetry.”
– Wallace Stevens
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Want more motivation to build your dream life? Then take a look at these short, deep and meaningful quotes for motivation, the motivational quotes for students in this post, the 32 motivation tips from me here and also these positive quotes for life, work and plenty more.
