100+ Money Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Your Financial Journey

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Warren Buffett

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

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

- Ayn Rand

"Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give."

- Adam Neumann

"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

"Making money is a happiness. And that’s a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness."

- Muhammad Yunus

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

- Joe Biden

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

- Will Rogers

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

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

- Edmund Burke

"Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it."

- Frank A. Clark

"There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain—do something to make more money yourself."

- Gina Rinehart

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Marsha Sinetar

"Fortune sides with him who dares."

- Virgil

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

- Dave Ramsey

"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

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

- Nathan W. Morris

"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

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

- P.T. Barnum

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Suze Orman

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

- Nathan W. Morris

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Suze Orman

"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

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

- Anne Sweeney

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

- Colin Powell

"Price is what you pay; value is what you get."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Will Rogers

"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticise, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

- William A. Ward

"Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- David Bailey

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Chris Brogan

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

- PT Barnum

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

- Robert G. Allen

"The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income."

- George Foreman

"All the money in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t have time to enjoy it."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Don Connelly

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

- Joe Moore

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonourably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."

- Ayn Rand

"Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track."

- Natasha Munson

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

- Confucius

"Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not."

- Dave Ramsey

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

- Warren Buffett

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

- George Washington

"The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing."

- Philip Fisher

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Confucius

"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

"It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be."

- Richard Branson

"Be a doer, not a dreamer."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble."

- Shirley Temple

"I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence."

- Beyonce

"Dare to deserve. Know your own worth."

- Lisa Messenger

"Money looks better in the bank than on your feet."

- Sophia Amoruso

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

- Josh Billings

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

- Dr. Henry Link

"For I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love."

- The Beatles

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more."

- Jack Benny

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

- Roger Babson

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

- Epictetus

"Frugality includes all the other virtues."

- Cicero

"Money is usually attracted, not pursued."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Seneca

"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

"Know what you own, and know why you own it."

- Peter Lynch

"Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!"

- Freddie Mercury

"For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success."

- Kanye West

"Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue."

- Andy Stanley

"All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health."

- Reba McEntire

"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go."

- Margaret Walker

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

- Steve Burkholder

"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."

- Marlon Brando

"Live like you’ll die tomorrow, work like you don’t need the money, and dance like nobody’s watching."

- Bob Fosse

"I’m not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn’t bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation."

- William Clay Ford, Jr.

"A treasure is to be valued for its own sake and not for what it will buy."

- Graham Greene

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

- Coco Chanel

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

- Jonathan Swift

"I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Jim Rohn

"The trick is to stop thinking of it as ‘your’ money."

- IRS auditor

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile."

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- Margo Vader

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

- Zig Ziglar

"If I can be optimistic when I’m nearly dead, surely the rest of you can handle a little inflation."

- Charlie Munger

"I prefer to be sitting on the beach, but I can’t. I want to be a billionaire."

- James Packer

"My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil."

- JP Getty

"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."

- Jackie Mason

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work."

- Robert Orben

"Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs."

- Zig Ziglar

"Fortune befriends the bold."

- Emily Dickinson

"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."

- J. Paul Getty

"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

"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?"

- Rene Rivkin

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

- Margaret Bonanno

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

- Mellody Hobson

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."

- Charles Dickens

"Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end."

- Bob Marley

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

- Plato

"Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable."

- Clare Boothe Luce

"Debts are like children – begot with pleasure, but brought forth with pain."

- Moliere

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

- Seneca

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back."

- Oscar Wilde

"Money’s only something you need in case you don’t die tomorrow."

- Carl Fox (Martin Sheen)

"A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist."

- Franklin Jones

"No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Put your gold money where your love is."

- The Grateful Dead

"Dogs have no money. Isn’t that amazing? They’re broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? … No pockets."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars."

- J. Paul Getty

"Money grows on the tree of persistence."

- Japanese Proverb

"If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."

- Aristotle Onassis

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

- Dorothy Parker

"I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better."

- Sophie Tucker

"Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die."

- Max Asnas

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair."

- Sam Ewing

"Don’t let your mouth write no check that your tail can’t cash."

- Bo Diddley

"You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it."

- Tennessee Williams

"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."

- Gordon Gekko

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy."

- Spike Milligan

"I like my money where I can see it, hanging in my closet."

- Carrie Bradshaw

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion."

- George Bernard Shaw

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."

- Woody Allen

"What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money."

- Henry Youngman

"It’s money. I remember it from when I was single."

- Billy Crystal

"If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are."

- Errol Flynn

"I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention."

- Ron Kittle

"I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons."

- Douglas Adams

"If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments."