50+ Money Making Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Financial Success

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Dave Ramsey

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- 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

"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

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Warren Buffett

"The biggest thing about making money is time. You don't have to be particularly smart, you just have to be patient."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Edmund Burke

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

- Warren Buffett

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

- Benjamin Franklin

"When your time spent making money is significantly greater than your time spent spending money, you will be amazed at how much you can save without even really thinking about it."

- Sophia Amoruso

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Jim Rohn

"Never spend your money before you have it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"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 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

"Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

"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

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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. I call this the ‘freedom multiplier.’"

- Timothy Ferriss

"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

"Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it’s keeping it."

- John McAfee

"Money is usually attracted, not pursued."

- Jim Rohn

"The key to making money is to stay invested."

- Suze Orman

"The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money."

- Sophia Amoruso

"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 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

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not have then so much reason to complain of hard times."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Robert G. Allen

"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 independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms."

- Priyanka Chopra

"The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work."

- Henry Dodd

"Change your focus, from making money to serving more people. Serving more people makes the money come in."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Believe that you are worthy of financial freedom. Do something you love and then all you ever have to do is be yourself to succeed."

- Jen Sincero

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Edmund Burke

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Chris Brogan

"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

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

- Robert G. Allen

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

- Tony Robbins

"I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have."

- Coleman Cox

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Berthold Auerbach

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

- Ben Graham

"Money grows on the tree of persistence."

- Japanese Proverb

"You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you."

- Tony Robbins

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Mark Zuckerberg

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

- Nathan W. Morris

"Spending money is much more difficult than making money."

- Jack Ma

"The secret to creating lasting financial change is to decide to pay yourself first and then make it automatic."

- David Bach

"Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money."

- Morgan Housel

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

- Rob Berger

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

- Guy Kawasaki

"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

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Suze Orman

"Success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success—and success is in direct proportion to our service."

- Earl Nightingale

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Steve Burkholder

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

- Natasha Munson

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

- Suze Orman

"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

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

- Joe Moore

"Making money is a happiness. Making other people happy is also a happiness. So why don’t we do both and maximize our happiness?"

- Muhammad Yunus

"Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society."

- Robert J. Shiller

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

- Muhammad Yunus

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

- Buddha

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Marlene Dietrich

"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 its filling a vacuum, it makes one."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master."

- P.T. Barnum

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."

- Jonathan Swift

"When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"Money is in some respects life’s fire: It is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."

- P.T. Barnum

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

- Frank A. Clark

"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

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

- Epictetus

"Riches either serve or govern the possessor."

- Horace

"Money withers if you don’t know how to nurse it along: money flies away if you don’t know where to put it."

- Carl Sandburg

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket."

- Will Rogers

"My father had an expression: Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value."

- Joe Biden

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

- Andy Warhol

"Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully."

- Scott Alexander

"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

"Get your friends involved. Let your shopping buddies know that you’re on a tight budget, and they can help you out when your willpower starts to weaken at the mall."

- Jean Chatzky

"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

"Fortune sides with him who dares."

- Virgil

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- James W. Frick

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

- Shirley Temple

"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

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

- Ogden Nash

"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

"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

"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Don Connelly

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

- Henry David Thoreau

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Chris Rock

"Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain."

- Suze Orman

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

- Philip Fisher

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- P.T. Barnum

"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."

- Larry Ellison

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

- Paul Krugman

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Jesse Jones

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

- Noam Chomsky

"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

"It’s easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket."

- Craig Ferguson

"People often spend money on things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like."

- Ethel Hays

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."

- Francis Bacon

"Real wealth is about freedom."

- James Clear

"Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you."

- Damon Runyon

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

- Seneca

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

- Margaret Walker

"Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered."

- Sudha Murty

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

- Kanye West

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

- Lao Tzu

"A journey of one thousand miles started out from one single step."

- Laozi

"Interest on debts grows without rain."