50 Amazing Money Quotes to Uplift, Educate, and Inspire

Pearl Strachan Hurd said it best: “Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.” As anyone who’s heard speeches from people like JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. knows, a few well-chosen words can have an immeasurable impact. When used as a force for good, they can cajole us, inspire us, enlighten us, lift our spirits, make us think, and compel positive change.

And so it is with money quotes! Whether you want to wise up on wealth creation, be inspired to improve your financial situation, or discover the pitfalls of pursuing cash at all costs, a simple quote about money could do the trick. If any of those outcomes sound good, then this post should help. In it, we’re revealing 50 of the best money quotes from some of the world’s greatest thinkers and financial experts.

Inspiring Quotes about Making Money

1. “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” – Mark Twain

2. “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” – Dave Ramsey

3. “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

4. “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” – Jim Rohn

5. “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

6. “When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I’m old – I know it is!” – Oscar Wilde

7. “Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it.” – Frank A. Clark

8. “Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.” – Christopher Marlowe

9. “Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is glory.” – Salvador Dali

10. “All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” – Spike Milligan

Quotes about Money and Saving

11. “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” – Edmund Burke

12. “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

13. “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

14. “The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.” – Will Rogers

15. “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

16. “If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right.” – William Shatner

17. “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

18. “Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.” – Warren Buffett

19. “A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.” – Joe Moore

20. “If you would be wealthy…think of Saving as well as of getting…Away then with your expensive follies, and you will not have so much cause to complain of hard times, heavy taxes and chargeable families.” – Benjamin Franklin

Quotes on Money and Spending

21. “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” – Zig Ziglar

22. “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

23. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus

24. “Never spend your money before you have it.” – Thomas Jefferson

25. “A fool and his money are soon parted.” – Thomas Tusser

26. “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

27. “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” – Joe Biden

28. “Too many people spend money they earned…to buy things they don’t want…to impress people that they don’t like.” – Will Rogers

29. “It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.” – Gloria Steinem

30. “Here’s how I think of my money – as soldiers – I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there’s more of them.” – Kevin O’Leary

Educational Money and Investing Quotes

31. “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

32. “How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” – Robert G. Allen

33. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

34. “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

35. “When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?” – Rene Rivkin

36. “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

37. “Wealth flows from energy and ideas.” – William Feather

38. “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.’” – Tim Ferriss

39. “You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.” – Casey Stengel

40. “Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.” – Agatha Christie

Wise Quotes about Money and Mindset

41. “Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” – P.T. Barnum

42. “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” – Jonathan Swift

43. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

44. “All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money.” – Robert Collier

45. “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

46. “If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.” – Vicki Robin

47. I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. –Pablo Picasso

48. “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

49. “Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.” – Henry James

50. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale

Don’t Forget These Famous Money Quotes

It’s hard to overstate the impact of encountering the right quote at the right time. Like a beautiful musical chord, these brief arrangements of words can make us laugh, compel action, inspire us, and alter how we walk through the world. In rare cases, they might even change someone’s life.

With any luck, the money quotes in this article will have offered some value of that sort! Whether you’ve been searching for financial inspiration or insights on wealth accumulation, we hope you found a money quote that did the job.

Find a Financial Advisor

Do you have questions about your financial future? Find a financial advisor who can help you enjoy life with less money stress by visiting Wealthtender’s free advisor directory.

Whether you’re looking for a specialist advisor who can meet with you online, or you prefer to find a nearby financial planner, you deserve to work with a professional who understands your unique circumstances.

Have a question to ask a financial advisor? Submit your question and it may be answered by a Wealthtender community financial advisor in an upcoming article.

–

Do you already work with a financial advisor? You could earn a $50 Amazon Gift Card in less than 5 minutes. Learn more and view terms.

This article originally appeared on Wealthtender. To make Wealthtender free for our readers, we earn money from advertisers, including financial professionals and firms that pay to be featured. This creates a natural conflict of interest when we favor their promotion over others. Wealthtender is not a client of these financial services providers.

Disclaimer: This article is intended for informational purposes only, and should not be considered financial advice. You should consult a financial professional before making any major financial decisions.

Author Bio

Danny is a digital nomad, freelance writer, and travel enthusiast who’s determined to make the most of his life. His new website, wisehealthynwealthy.com, is full of useful resources on a wide range of topics to help you do the same.