100 Top Quotes About Money From Forbes Magazine

June 12, 2019

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like. –Will Rogers
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. –Jonathan Swift
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. –Epictetus
Money often costs too much. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. –David Feherty
Frugality includes all the other virtues. –Cicero
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
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. –Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. –Thomas Edison
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
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
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. –Yogi Berra
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
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
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. –Jim Rohn
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. –Ayn Rand
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 is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. –Seneca
It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. –Henry Ford
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. –Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. –Norman Vincent Peale
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
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
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
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
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. –George Bernard Shaw
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. –Robert G. Allen
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. –Malcolm Forbes
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. –Steve Jobs
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. –Anonymous
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. –P.T. Barnum
Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. –Jack Benny
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. –Henry David Thoreau
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. –Ben Graham
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. –Thomas Jefferson
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey
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
Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. –Nathan W. Morris
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. –Zig Ziglar
Never spend your money before you have it. —Thomas Jefferson
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. –Phillip Fisher
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. –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
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. –Thomas A. Edison
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
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. –Steve Jobs
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
Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” –Joe Biden
If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. –Vicki Robin
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
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. –Winston Churchill
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
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. –Albert Einstein
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
It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important. –Zig Ziglar
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. –David Brinkley
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. –Roger Babson
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. –John Wayne
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. –Mahatma Gandhi
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
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. –J. K Rowling
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. –Bruce Lee
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. –Dale Carnegie
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. –Robert Kiyosaki
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. –Steve Jobs
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. –Abraham Lincoln
Screw it, Let’s do it! –Richard Branson
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! –Jonathan Winters
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. –Henry Kravis
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. –Donald Trump
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. –Vidal Sassoon
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. –Benjamin Franklin
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. –Chris Guillebeau
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. –Lao Tzu
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
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. –Warren Buffett
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. –George Soros
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
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
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? –Rene Rivkin
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks. –John Bogle
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. –Abraham Lincoln
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. –Eleanor Roosevelt
The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ –Sir John Templeton
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. –Pablo Picasso
Fortune sides with him who dares. –Virgil
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. –Arthur Schopenhauer
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. –Edmund Burke
No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. –Plato
My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. –JP Getty
The best thing money can buy is financial freedom. –Me

These quotes were taken from the Forbes article by Top 100 Money Quotes of All Time by Rob Berger. CLICK HERE to see his article.

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