There’s a lot to be learned from those who have made (and lost) their money.
Get inspired!
Read some of these quotes about investment, money, debt and success that’ll change how you view money and success – and how you approach getting there.
Quotes About Money
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’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
– Pablo Picasso.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
– Ayn Rand.
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
– P.T. Barnum.
Never spend your money before you have it.
– Thomas Jefferson.
Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.
– Warren Buffett.
Don’t let money run your life, let money help you run your life better.
– John Rampton.
One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small
seed from which fortunes spring.
– Orison Swett Marden.
Quotes About Investment and Stocks
Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.
– Peter Lynch.
Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive.
– Warren Buffett.
Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50% without becoming panic stricken, you should not be in the stock market.
– Warren Buffett.
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
– John Maynard Keynes.
To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
– Benjamin Graham.
Don’t invest in a business you don’t understand.
– Warren Buffett.
I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
– Warren Buffett.
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
– Robert G. Allen.
The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.’
– Sir John Templeton.
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.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
– Norman Vincent Peale.
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.
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?
– Rene Rivkin.
In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.
– Robert Arnott.
An Approach to Money
Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge.
– Dave Ramsey.
The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing.
– Carrie Wilkerson.
Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
– Benjamin Franklin.
I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth shall starve in the process.
– Benjamin Harrison.
For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don’t like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don’t like that one? They’ll just keep coming. There’s no end to buses or businesses.
– Sheldon Adelson.
Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
– Tony Hsieh.
Quotes Debt and Credit
Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.
– Robert T. Kiyosaki.
Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.
– Ryan Holmes.
In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we’re doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, ‘I have to buy this gift… I can’t show up at this party and not have something for everybody.
– Suze Orman.
When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.
– Robert T. Kiyosaki.
Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.
– Suze Orman.
Quotes About Achieving Success
My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil.
– JP Getty.
Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.
– Michael Bloomberg.
As a franchisee you need to have the ability to be a CEO the one minute and the next a cashier and cleaner if necessary.
– John Baladakis.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
– Robert Orben.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
– Jim Rohn.
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
– George Soros.
Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.
– Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Your Turn
Do you have a great money quote or proverb for us?
What about the best advice about money you ever received?
Tell us about it in the comments!
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