Money Quotes

People say money can’t buy happiness… and it is true! Today I’m sharing over 100 money quotes to remind us that money isn’t everything and that there are so many other blessings in life. Keep reading!

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“Balancing your money is the key to having enough.” — Elizabeth Warren
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand
“The lack of money is the root of all evil.” – Mark Twain
“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” – Jonathan Swift
“Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” – Proverb
“Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment, it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” – Aristotle
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“The lack of money is no obstacle. The lack of an idea is an obstacle.” – Ken Hakuta
“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.” – Idowu Koyenikan
“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela
“It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.” – Henry Ford
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” – Ronald Reagan
“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” – Kin Hubbard
“Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” – Jim Rohn
“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it starts to rain.” – Robert Frost
“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
“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.” – Francis Bacon
“The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.” – Evan Esar
“If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.” – Simone Weil
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.” – Kahlil Gibran
“The best thing money can buy is financial freedom.” – Rob Berger
“Money is a tool, not a goal. Money has no value if it is not being used.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.” – Thornton Wilder
“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.” – Margaret Thatcher
“The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.” – Jim Rohn
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” – P.T. Barnum
“The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.” – Sir Henry Taylor
“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.” – Ayn Rand
“A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.” – Joe Moore
“Never spend your money before you have it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Money is a great servant but a bad master.” – Francis Bacon
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.” – Will Rogers
“Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.” -Will Rogers
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
“Money grows on the tree of persistence.” – Japanese Proverb
“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 takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
“I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.” – Robert Bosch
“Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.” – Chris Rock
“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.” – Idowu Koyenikan
“Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.” –Suze Orman
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs
“You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.” –Tony Robbins
“I have always had a great relationship with money, even when I barely had any to relate to. I never fear not having it and never obsessed about what I had.” – Oprah Winfrey
“If you’re saving, you’re succeeding.” –Steve Burkholder
“If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.” — Brigham Young
“You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.” – Tennessee Williams
“I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.” – Beyonce
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” –Benjamin Franklin
“Money is a tool. Used properly it makes something beautiful; used wrong, it makes a mess!” — Bradley Vinson
“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
“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” – Helen Gurley Brown
“Time well-spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.” –Zig Ziglar
“It’s easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.” –Craig Ferguson
“Money is the best deodorant.” – Elizabeth Taylor
“Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more.” –Jack Benny
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” — Zig Ziglar
“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” –Philip Fisher
“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
“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.” – Rita Rudner
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“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’ve got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve got 71 cents left. But if you’ve got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve still got seventeen grand. There’s a math lesson for you.” — Steven Martin
“If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.” — Katherine Hepburn
“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
“Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it.” –Frank A. Clark
“Fortune sides with him who dares.” — Virgil
“If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.” – Marilyn Monroe
“The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.” –Woodrow Wilson
“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
“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.” – Edith Wharton
“Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.” –Nathan W. Morris
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” — Ayn Rand
“I must say I hate money, but it’s the lack of it that I hate most.” – Katherine Mansfield
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” –Epictetus
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.” — Seneca
“Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.” – Fannie Hurst
“Money doesn’t buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.” –Carolina Herrera
“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” –Joe Biden
“Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.” — Benjamin Franklin
“I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven’t got money, or standing in society, or formal education. I had a very middle, lower-middle class sort of upbringing, but I identify with people who’ve had, at some point in their lives to struggle to survive. It adds another color to your character.” – Madonna
“Frugality includes all the other virtues.” –Cicero
“Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.” — Alistair Begg
“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.” – Aphra Behn
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” –Edmund Burke
“Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.” — Og Mandino
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are ‘check enclosed.’” – Dorothy Parker
“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
“While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” — Groucho Marx
“Money isn’t everything, your health is the other ten per cent.” – Lillian Day
“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
“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.” — George Monbiot
“Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.” – Mae West
“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
“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1” — Warren Buffett
“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.” – Virginia Woolf
“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

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