Big thoughts can be captured in a few words by great quotes. Unforgettably, they inspire, encourage, and motivate. I use quotations from notable people to emphasize key ideas about money, saving, investing, and personal finance and share them in this blog post.
When and How To Apply These Quotes
- These quotations about relationships and money will help you stay on track if you need a little encouragement to improve your connection with it.
- To maintain a positive perspective, you can understand the connection between money and personal finance quotes regularly by reading them aloud to yourself or frequently writing them down.
- I frequently use them in my vision board, diary, and notebooks for motivation and uplifting my money mindset.
These inspirational and thought-provoking quotations can help you develop your money mindset and keep you focused. So take a seat back (ideally in a cozy corner), unwind, and reflect on these auspicious quotes:
All money is a matter of belief.”
Adam Smith
Money is Freedom.”
Horace WallpoleYour income can grow only to
T. Harv Eker
the extent that you do.”
All returns in life, whether in
Naval Ravikant
wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come
from compound interest.”
Do the one thing you
Oprah Winfrey
think you cannot do.
Fail at it. Try again.
Do better the second time.
The only people who never
tumble are those who
never mount the high wire.
This is your moment. Own it.”
If you don’t find a way
Warren Buffet
to make money while you sleep,
you will work until you die.”
The habit of saving is itself
T. T. Munger
an education; it fosters every virtue,
teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense
of order, trains to forethought,
and so broadens the mind.”
Every time you borrow money,
Nathan W. Morris
you’re robbing your future self.”
It is not the man who
Seneca
has too little, but the man
who craves more, that is poor.”
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
You must gain control over your
Dave Ramsey
money or the lack of it
will forever control you.”
Money dictates nearly every step
Stacey Abrams (Lead From The Outside)
of social mobility from our
very first moments of life.
Money is more than the
determinant of where we learn.”
No wealth can ever make a
Plato
bad man at peace with himself.”
I’m a great believer in luck,
Thomas Jefferson
and I find the harder I
work the more I have of it.”
Don’t tell me what you value,
Joe Biden
show me your budget,
and I’ll tell you what you value.”
Fortune sides with him who dares.”
Virgil
Money is one of the most
Stacey Abrams (Lead From The Outside)
impenetrable barriers because most of us
start without it, and it stays
that way for a while.
Do not mistake income for wealth
(understand the difference).”
You are not going to get
Naval Ravikant
rich renting out your time. You
must own equity – a piece of
business – to gain your financial freedom.”
I’m only rich because I know
George Soros
when I’m wrong… I basically have
survived by recognizing my mistakes.”
When buying shares, ask yourself,
Rene Rivkin
would you buy the whole company?”
A journey of a thousand miles
Lao Tzu
must begin with a single step.”
The Stock market is designed to transfer
Warren Buffett
money from the Active to the Patient.”
Persist – don’t take no for an
David Rubenstein
answer. If you’re happy to sit
at your desk and not take
any risk, you’ll be sitting
at your desk for the next 20 years.”
It is our choices, that show what
J. K Rowling
we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
Develop success from failures.
Dale Carnegie
Discouragement and failure are two of
the surest stepping stones to success.”
Do not go where the path
Ralph Waldo Emerson
may lead, go instead where there
is no path and leave a trail.”
If you have trouble imagining a
John Bogle
20% loss in the stock market,
you shouldn’t be in stocks.”
Before you speak, listen.
William A. Ward
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.”
Be in control of your time.
Naval Ravikant
Learn to sell, learn to build –
if you can do both, you’ll be unstoppable.”
True success is exiting some rat race to
Nassim Taleb
modulate one’s activities for peace of mind.”
Not everything that can be counted counts,
Albert Einstein
and not everything that counts can be counted.”
He who loses money loses much;
Eleanor Roosevelt
He who loses a friend loses much more;
He who loses faith loses all.”
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation
David Brinkley
with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
Less ego, more wealth.
Morgan Housel
Saving money is the gap between
your ego and your income, and
wealth is what you don’t see.
So wealth is created by suppressing
what you could buy today in
order to have more stuff or
more options in the future.
No matter how much you earn,
you will never build wealth
unless you can put a lid
on how much fun you can
have with your money right now, today.”
It’s not the employer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
Employers only handle the money.
It’s the customer who pays the wages.”
How many millionaires do you know who have
Robert G. Allen
become wealthy by investing in savings accounts?
I rest my case.”
A real entrepreneur is somebody who
Henry Kravis
has no safety net underneath them.”
The real measure of your wealth
Anonymous
is how much you’d be worth
if you lost all your money.”
It’s how you deal with failure
David Feherty
that determines how you achieve success.”
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Mahatma Gandhi
Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”
Benjamin Franklin
If you don’t value your time,
Kim Garst
neither will others.
Stop giving away your time and talents.
Value what you know & start charging for it.”
Do not be one of those
Proverbs 22:26
who go guarantor,
who go surety for debts:
If you have no means of paying,
you will find your bed taken from under you.”
We make a living by what we get,
Winston Churchill
but we make a life by what we give.”
Formal education will make you a living;
Jim Rohn
self-education will make you a fortune.”
Rich people have small TVs and
Zig Ziglar
big libraries and poor people have
small libraries and big TVs.”
Never spend your money before you have it”
Thomas Jefferson
Twenty years from now you will
Mark Twain
be more disappointed by the things
that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Retirement is when you stop sacrificing
Naval Ravikant
today for an imaginary tomorrow.
When today is complete in and
of itself, you’re retired.”
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you,
Abraham Lincoln
and in the end, you are sure to succeed.”
Screw it, Let’s do it!
Richard Branson
Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff.
Dave Ramsey
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.”
You can’t connect the dots
Steve Jobs
looking forward; you can only connect
them looking backwards. So you
have to trust that the dots
will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something –
your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
This approach has never let me down,
and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
Epictetus
but in having few wants.”
The personal power to make choices –
Stacey Abrams (Lead from the Outside)
and to help others – increases exponentially
when we expand our focus to include creating wealth.”
Money is a deeply personal subject
Tony Robbins (Unshakeable)
for us all. Why? Because it’s tied
up with our hopes and dreams,
our desire to take care of
the next generation, to have a
charitable impact, to live an extraordinary life on our terms.”
Generally, lean into things with short-term pain, but long-term gain.”
Naval Ravikant
Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.”
John Ray
Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money
Frank A. Clark
when what they don’t know is how to use it.”
People who have control over their time tend to be happier in life.”
Morgan Housel
Money does not buy you happiness,
Daniel Kahneman
but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
What if we were taught from a
John Butcher
very early age that wealth, progress,
and prosperity are what eliminate poverty and
human suffering and that making money is
not some form of a spiritual defect
but the highest form of contribution?“
Money and Success don’t change people.
Will Smith
They merely amplify what is already there.”
Winning is an intentional act.
Dave Ramsey
It’s hard to be generous when you are broke.”
People often say that motivation doesn’t last.
Zig Ziglar
Well, neither does bathing –
that’s why we recommend it daily.”
Try to save something while your salary is small;
Jack Benny
it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more.”
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.”
P.T. Barnum
Frugality includes all the other virtues.”
Cicero
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.”
Chris Guillebeau
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
Many people take no care of their
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
money till they come nearly to
the end of it, and others do just
the same with their time.”
The only place where success comes
Vidal Sassoon
before work is in the dictionary.”
Money is a good servant, but a bad master.”
Francis Bacon
A wise person should have money
Jonathan Swift
in their head, but not in their heart.”
Empty pockets never held anyone back.
Norman Vincent Peale
Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
People who don’t respect money, don’t have any.”
J. Paul Getty
It’s good to have money and
George Lorimer
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.”
It’s not how much money you make,
Robert Kiyosaki
but how much money you keep,
how hard it works for you,
and how many generations you keep it for.”
Money moves from those who do not manage it to those who do.”
Dave Ramsey
Without continual growth and progress,
Benjamin Franklin
such words as improvement,
achievement, and success have no meaning.”
When I was young, I used to
Oscar Wilde
think money was the most important thing in life.
Now that I’m old, I know that it is.”
Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
Thomas Jefferson
Opportunity is missed by most people
Thomas Edison
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”
Jonathan Winters
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you,
Abraham Lincoln
and in the end you are sure to succeed.”
Don’t let the fear of losing
Robert Kiyosaki
be greater than the excitement of winning.”
It’s not the situation, but whether
Zig Ziglar
we react (negative) or respond (positive)
to the situation that’s important.”
It is time for us to stand
Vince Lombardi
and cheer for the doer, the achiever,
the one who recognizes the challenge
and does something about it.”
Let him who would enjoy a
Roger Babson
good future waste none of his present.”
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