Best Quotes on Money and Finance

Money has always been in the center of human life and society. A number of learned people have said things from which we can learn as well as things which amuses us. RiseMoneyWise brings some of the best quotes related with money.

1. Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. –P.T. Barnum
2. 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
3. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
4. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. –John Wayne
5. My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. –JP Getty
6. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. –Dale Carnegie
7. 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
8. 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
9. Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value. –Joe Biden
10. Fortune sides with him who dares. –Virgil
11. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. –Thomas Edison
12. It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important. –Zig Ziglar
13. Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like. –Will Rogers
14. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. –Jonathan Swift
15. Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. –Abraham Lincoln
16. 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
    
17. It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. –Henry Ford
18. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. –Ayn Rand
19. 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
20. You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey
21. 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
22. Never spend your money before you have it. —Thomas Jefferson
23. 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
24. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. –Mahatma Gandhi
25. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. –Yogi Berra
26. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. –Donald Trump
27. Do the one thing you 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. –Oprah Winfrey
28. My old father used to have a saying:  If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. –Abraham Lincoln
29. 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
30. 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
31. If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it. –Kim Garst
32. I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. –George Soros
33. No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. –Plato
34. Money often costs too much. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. –Pablo Picasso
36. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –Benjamin Franklin
37. 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
38. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. –Thomas A. Edison
39. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. –Benjamin Franklin
40. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. –Thomas Jefferson
41. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. –Norman Vincent Peale
42. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. –Roger Babson
43. The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. –Anonymous
44. 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
45. 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
46. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks. –John Bogle
47. He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. –Eleanor Roosevelt
48. A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. –Henry Kravis
49. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. –Mark Twain
50. Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. –Jack Benny
51. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill
52. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. –Henry David Thoreau
53. Persist – don’t take no for an 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. –David Rubenstein
54. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. –David Brinkley
55. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. –Edmund Burke
56. 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
57. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. –Robert Kiyosaki
58. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. –Vicki Robin
59. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. –Jim Rohn
60. If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. –George Bernard Shaw
61. When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? –Rene Rivkin
62. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. –Zig Ziglar
63. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
65. The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. —Ben Graham
66. Screw it, Let’s do it! –Richard Branson
67. 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
68. Frugality includes all the other virtues. –Cicero
69. 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
70. I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. –Malcolm Forbes
71. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. –Robert G. Allen
72. Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. –Nathan W. Morris
73. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. –Epictetus
74. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. —Steve Jobs
75. 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
76. Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. –Arthur Schopenhauer
77. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. –Winston Churchill
78. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years. —Warren Buffett
79. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. –Vidal Sassoon
80. 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
81. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. –Albert Einstein
82. The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. –Phillip Fisher
83. 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
84. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. –Seneca
85. The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ –Sir John Templeton
86. If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! –Jonathan Winters
87. The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. –Warren Buffett
88. It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. –Vince Lombardi
89. If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. –Chris Guillebeau
90. It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. –David Feherty
91. If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor. –Charlie Munger