100+ Financial Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Your Wealth Journey

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

"Investing in yourself is the best investment you can ever make. It will pay the best interest."

- Warren Buffett

"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

"Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1."

- Warren Buffett

"The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you’re willing to sacrifice"

- Nathan W. Morris

"Whether socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down."

- Warren Buffett

"Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving."

- Warren Buffett

"Rule No. 1 is never lose money. Rule No. 2 is never forget Rule No. 1."

- Warren Buffett

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it."

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Edmund Burke

"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."

- P.T. Barnum

"A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life."

- Suze Orman

"If you’re saving, you’re succeeding."

- Steve Burkholder

"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom."

- Robert G. Allen

"When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you’ll have financial freedom."

- Suze Orman

"The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms."

- Chris Brogan

"The key to money is to stay invested."

- Suze Orman

"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

"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

"The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator."

- Ben Graham

"Money won’t create success, freedom to make it will."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Ayn Rand

"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

"More important than the how we achieve financial freedom, is the why. Find your reasons why you want to be free and wealthy."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce—to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That’s true financial independence. It’s not having wealth; it’s having the power to produce wealth."

- Stephen Covey

"Working because you want to, not because you have to, is financial freedom."

- Tony Robbins

"The best thing money can buy is financial freedom."

- Rob Berger

"Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self."

- Nathan W. Morris

"If you’re not staying on top of your money, you’re putting your financial well-being at risk."

- Suze Orman

"Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page. It is an embodiment of our values."

- Barack Obama

"Never spend your money before you have earned it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value."

- Joe Biden

"Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget."

- Alexa Von Tobel

"The only reason for time is so we can experience change. The only reason for money is so we can experience life."

- Tony Robbins

"Financial freedom is the ability to live the life you want, when you want, on your own terms."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The key to making money is to save money."

- Horace Greeley

"The only time to buy something is when you can afford it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Financial peace isn’t the absence of money; it’s the absence of worry."

- Dave Ramsey

"Budgeting is telling your money where to go, instead of wondering where it went."

- John Barnes

"The more you learn, the more you earn."

- Warren Buffett

"Don’t tell me what your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money, and I’ll tell you what they are."

- James W. Frick

"If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die."

- Warren Buffett

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you."

- Dave Ramsey

"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth… both financial and emotional."

- Suze Orman

"Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self."

- Nathan W. Morris

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Everyone knows at least one ‘know-it-all’. If you want to invest well, don’t be a know-it-all."

- Warren Buffet

"The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient."

- Warren Buffet

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"It’s pointless to set goals if you are not going to try to hit them."

- Don Connelly

"If you make meaning, you’ll make money."

- Guy Kawasaki

"Financial fitness is not a pipe dream or a state of mind. It’s a reality if you are willing to pursue it and embrace it."

- Will Robinson

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

- Zig Ziglar

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Berthold Auerbach

"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

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

"You don't need to raise money. You need to be smart and be focused."

- Mark Cuban

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

- Abraham Lincoln

"If you lose money you lose much, if you lose friends you lose more, if you lose faith you lose all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The challenge is not to pick the best investment. The challenge is to pick the right investment."

- Don Connelly

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

- Epictetus

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"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

"It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society."

- Ron Lewis

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future."

- Barry Ritholtz

"Do what you love and the money will follow."

- Marsha Sinetar

"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

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"The difference between succeeding and failing is consistency."

- Don Connelly

"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Buy at the point of maximum pessimism; sell at the point of maximum optimism."

- Sir John Templeton

"You can make EXCUSES and earn SYMPATHY, OR you can make MONEY and earn ADMIRATION. The choice is always yours…"

- Manoj Arora

"The challenge is not to pick the best investment. The challenge is to pick the right investment."

- Don Connelly

"Do not focus on money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for the world. Money will follow you as a bi-product."

- Manoj Arora

"Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like."

- Will Smith

"A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones."

- George Washington

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Money does not dictate your lifestyle, It’s what you do to get it and how you manage your finances that determines your lifestyle."

- Wayne Chirisa

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

- Chris Rock

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

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

- Jonathan Swift

"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."

- Amy Carmichael

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action."

- Dr. Henry Link

"Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live."

- Anne Sweeney

"Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value."

- Joe Biden

"Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of."

- Josh Billings

"Having information on investing is one thing. Knowing what to do with it is something else entirely."

- Don Connelly

"More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went."

- Roger Babson

"Fortune sides with him who dares."

- Virgil

"Rich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them."

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"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."

- Marlene Dietrich

"How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case."

- Robert G. Allen

"If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it."

- Kim Garst

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset."

- Paul Krugman

"Creditors have better memories than debtors."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Debt is normal. Be weird."

- Dave Ramsey

"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."

- Aesop

"One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back."

- Jesse Jones

"You can’t always visualize the reward, but you can believe in the sacrifice if the vision is strong enough."

- Don Connelly

"As people and Financial Advisors, we can’t change the inevitable. But we can play on the thing we do have and that’s our attitude."

- Don Connelly

"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

"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."

- Confucius

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

- Joe Moore

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

- Woody Allen

"Don’t think money does everything, or you are going to do everything for money."

- Voltaire

"Small amounts saved daily add up to huge investments in the end."

- Margo Vader

"Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows."

- Jim Rogers

"The biggest risk of all is not taking one."

- Mellody Hobson

"Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments."

- Brian Tracy

"Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience."

- PT Barnum

"People who are enthusiastic make more money than people who are not enthusiastic. Choose to be enthusiastic."

- Don Connelly

"To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep."

- David Bailey

"Money is usually attracted, not pursued."

- Jim Rohn

"At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start."

- Brian Tracy

"Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed."

- Seneca

"Time well-spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation."

- Zig Ziglar

"But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid."

- Arianna Huffington

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

- Jim Rohn

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

- Plato

"If you totally want to reduce risk, take no risk. Bury the money.  Then you’ve got no risk at all."

- Don Connelly

"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

"People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made."

- Joan Rivers

"If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!"

- William Shatner

"Predicting the future with any degree of Certainty is impossible. The key is to react accordingly to any situation as it arises."

- Don Connelly

"Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them."

- Ogden Nash

"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time."

- Margaret Bonanno

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

- Seneca

"Fortune befriends the bold."

- Emily Dickinson

"A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."

- Confucius

"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate."

- Donald Trump

"Money isn’t everything, but it’s right up there with oxygen."

- Zig Ziglar

"Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious."

- Will Rogers

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

- Andy Warhol

"Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact."

- Noam Chomsky

"Money grows on the tree of persistence."

- Japanese Proverb

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"Interest on debts grows without rain."