It is true that nobody knows much about tomorrow, we all live in hope that tomorrow will be better than today. The following wise quotes about life can really point.
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"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
- Will Smith
“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.”
- Proverb
"For I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me love."
- The Beatles
"Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise."
- Benjamin Franklin
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
- Woody Allen
"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
- George Bernard Shaw
"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."
- H. L. Mencken
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
- Kin Hubbard
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
- Bob Hope
"What's a soup kitchen?"
- Paris Hilton
"The art is not in making money, but in keeping it."
- Proverb
"Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears."
- Robert W. Sarnoff
"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
- Donald Trump
"The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money."
- IRS auditor
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"
- Ayn Rand
"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means."
- Sir Henry Taylor
"Money is the best deodorant."
- Elizabeth Taylor
"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
"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
"Money often costs too much."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments."
- Earl Wilson
"Don't tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are."
- James W. Frick
"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
- Jim Rohn
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."
- Ayn Rand
"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
"Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."
- Jim Rohn
"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
"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
- Errol Flynn
"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it."
- Rebecca Johnson
"The Mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last."
- Evan Esar
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket."
- Kin Hubbard
“A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
- Pablo Picasso
“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
- Earl Wilson
“The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.”
- Woodrow Wilson
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas Edison
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
- Carl Sandburg
“Endless money forms the sinews of war.”
- Cicero
“Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.”
- Henry Fielding
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Money alone sets all the world in motion.”
- Pubilius Syrus
“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.”
- Senator Everett Dirksen
“The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.”
- Sir Henry Taylor
“That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.”
- Whoopi Goldberg
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
- Derek Bok
"Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50%, without becoming panic stricken, you should not be in the stock market."
- Warren Buffett
"The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor."
- Warren Buffett
"The only investors who shouldn't diversify are those who are right 100% of the time.”
- Templeton
"Never spend money before you have it."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The biggest trouble with a sure thing, is the uncertainty."
- Unknown
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.”
- Tom Waits
“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
- Walt Disney
“I'm not really interested in making money.”
- Steven Spielberg
“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”
- Al Franken
“To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.”
- David Bailey
“A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.”
- Maria Bartiromo
“With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.”
- Nancy Grace
“The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”
- Peter Lynch
“The key to making money is to stay invested.”
- Suze Orman
“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”
- Tennessee Williams
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
- Harry S. Truman
“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
“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
“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.”
- Irving Berlin
“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
- Ambrose Bierce
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.”
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“Money often costs too much.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ask ten people what they think about money and wealth, and you’ll likely get ten different answers.
Wealth may not be all that it’s cracked up to be, but at the same time, who doesn’t want a few extra dollars in their pocket?
We’ve gathered 23 quotes from some of the world’s most famous authors, speakers, philosophers, comedians, and leaders; and no, they don’t all agree about the role of money in life. Still, there’s wisdom to be gleaned, and you may find your own thoughts about money being challenged in the process. Do you have a quote you’d like us to feature? Tweet @Bplans, and we’ll add your quote to our list of submissions.
“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; Tweet this!
“Money is a tool. Used properly it makes something beautiful; used wrong, it makes a mess!” — Bradley Vinson; Tweet this!
“Balancing your money is the key to having enough.” — Elizabeth Warren; Tweet this!
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” — Zig Ziglar; Tweet this!
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” — Epictetus; Tweet this!
“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; Tweet this!
“Fortune sides with him who dares.” — Virgil; Tweet this!
“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; Tweet this!
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” — Ayn Rand; Tweet this!
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.” — Seneca; Tweet this!
“Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.” — Benjamin Franklin; Tweet this!
“Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.” — Alistair Begg; Tweet this!
“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; Tweet this!
“While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” — Groucho Marx; Tweet this!
“You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.” — Tennessee Williams; Tweet this!
“Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.” — Chris Rock; Tweet this!
“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.” — George Monbiot; Tweet this!
“Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.” — Voltaire; Tweet this!
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.” — Harry S. Truman; Tweet this!
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” — Jane Austen; Tweet this!
“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1” — Warren Buffett; Tweet this!
“I think you will find when your death takes its toll all the money you made will never buy back your soul” — Bob Dylan; Tweet this!
“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.” — Will Rogers; Tweet this!
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Here are 66 best time quotes organized by topics:
Be on time
Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Time is the best teacher
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
Pericles
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus
Histories make men wise.
Francis Bacon
Use your time wisely
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Shoppenhauer
Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.
Charles Richards
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Stephen R. Covey
Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.
Author Unknown
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
William Shakespeare
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Anthony Robbins
Check your priorities
If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.
Lee Iacocca
It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
Small things matter
Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin
Do only a few things
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publius Syrus
One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
Chinese Proverb
Focus on the present
Never let yesterday use up today.
Richard H. Nelson
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham
It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.
Marcia Wieder
Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.
Sara Paddison
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
Carl Sandburg
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.
Art Buchwald
This is the beginning of a new day.
God has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good.
What I do today is important, because
I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes,
this day will be gone forever,
leaving in its place something
that I have traded for it.
I want it to be gain, not loss;
good not evil; success not failure;
in order that I shall not regret
the price I paid for it.
Author Unknown
Lost time gone forever
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.
Thomas Fuller
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
Dante
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles
Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefully.
Author Unknown
One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.
Author Unknown
Lost time is never found again.
Proverb
The importance of time
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.
John Shebbeare
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian Tracy
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Laertius Diogenes
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
John Randolph
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
Thomas Edison
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
Peter F. Drucker
Don’t procrastinate
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish Proverb
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Baltasar Gracian
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
Malcolm S. Forbes
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Eva Young
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
Leo Kennedy
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Don’t excuse, you are in control
You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Bruxton
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Michael Altshuler
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
Louis E. Boone
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
Sir John Lubbock
Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean De La Bruyere
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.”
Franklin Field
Sep 9, 2018 Learn from the best with these 30 productivity quotes. From Albert 'If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done'.
The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money. Warren Buffett Click to tweet
The more you learn, the more you earn. Warren Buffett Click to tweet
If you make meaning, you’ll make money. Guy Kawasaki Click to tweet
Rich people believe “I create my life”. Poor people believe “Life happens to me”. T. Harv Eker Click to tweet
Earn with your mind, not your time. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet
Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet
Stop buying things you don’t need, to impress people you don’t even like. Suze Orman Click to tweet
If it’s only about money we are hopeless. If it’s about people we are hopeful. Maxime Lagacé Click to tweet
There are people who have money and people who are rich. Coco Chanel Click to tweet
I make myself rich by making my wants few. Henry David Thoreau Click to tweet
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When I had money everyone called me brother. Polish proverb Click to tweet
Don’t just make money, make a difference. Grant Cardone
Money moves from those who do not manage it to those who do. Dave Ramsey
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money. Alan Watts
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options. Chris Rock
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. Henry David Thoreau
Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far. Warren Buffett
Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn Click to tweet
Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life. John Wooden Click to tweet
Money is a great servant but a bad master. Francis Bacon
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. Jim Carrey
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy. Haruki Murakami
I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful. Marilyn Monroe
The ultimate purpose of money is so that you do not have to be in a specific place at a specific time doing anything you don’t want to do. Naval Ravikant
Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy. Naval Ravikant
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end. Bob Marley
The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people. Peter Diamandis Click to tweet
The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left. Jim Rohn
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. Barack Obama
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm (This is one of my favorite money quote. Leave a reply here and let me know what’s yours!)
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Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1. Warren Buffett Click to tweet
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. Warren Buffett
We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. Walt Disney
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Benjamin Franklin
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference. Barack Obama
Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. Ronald Reagan
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. Donald Trump
Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
I believe the power to make money is a gift of God. John D. Rockefeller
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. Sam Walton (Walmart)
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society. Mahatma Gandhi
If you can get paid for doing what you love, every paycheck is a bonus Oprah Winfrey
We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil. Larry Page (Google)
Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will. Nelson Mandela
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. Mahatma Gandhi
We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like. Tyler Durden (Fight Club) Click to tweet
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. Johnny Cash
My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. J. Paul Getty
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire
All the money you made will never buy back your soul. Bob Dylan
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Oscar Wilde
I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love. The Beatles
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. Pablo Picasso
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Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich. T. Harv Eker Click to tweet
Be your money’s master, not its slave. Publius Syrus (The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus)
Rich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus on obstacles. T. Harv Eker
It does not take money to make money. Robert T. Kiyosaki
All money is a matter of belief. Adam Smith
Money may be spent but never squandered. Li Ka Shing
A man in debt is so far a slave. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J. Paul Getty
Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. Alan Watts
Don’t go broke trying to go rich. Unknown (Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community)
Money doesn’t change people. It unmasks them. Unknown
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. W. C. Fields
Money is the best deodorant. Elizabeth Taylor
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. Ted Turner
Rich people think big. Poor people think small. T. Harv Eker
Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose. T. Harv Eker
Money grows on the tree of persistence. Japanese proverb Click to tweet
The fools in life want things fast and easy — money, success, attention. Robert Greene
If money’s where you find happiness, you’ll always be poor. NF
If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money. Warren Buffett
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. Anton Chekhov
Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it. Kevin O’Leary (Shark Tank)
Words are the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes
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Fortune sides with him who dares. Virgil Click to tweet
The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms. Chris Brogan
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde
I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it. Thomas A. Edison
Make your goal more than money. Make it about helping people and creating a better future. Maxime Lagacé
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 T. Kiyosaki
There is gold everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it. Robert T. Kiyosaki
Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris – I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it. Charlie Munger
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison
I’m hard working, frugal, steadfast, willing to learn and to build a credible name. Li Ka Shing
What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like. Kevin O’Leary (Shark Tank)
It’s not about the money. It’s about the life I want to live. Unknown
If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you’ll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you’ll end up mighty comfortable. T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind)
Rich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them. T. Harv Eker
Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time. T. Harv Eker
Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target. T. Harv Eker
It’s simple arithmetic: “Your income can grow only to the extent you do”. T. Harv Eker
Where the determination is, the way can be found. George S. Clason (The Richest Man in Babylon)
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. George S. Clason (The Richest Man in Babylon)
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. Bette Davis
You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you’ve achieved success, you’re free to do whatever you like. Kevin O’Leary (Shark Tank)
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett Click to tweet
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. Warren Buffett
If you don’t get serious about your money you will never have serious money. Grant Cardone
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. Ambrose Bierce Click to tweet
Does running out of money count as exercise? Unknown
It’s amazing how fast later comes when you buy now. Milton Berle
Taking drugs and thinking that you are happy is like taking a loan and thinking you have money. Thibaut
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. George Carlin
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. Bob Hope
Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money. Robin Williams
If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that. Charlie Munger
Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don’t generate a lot of interest. Unknown
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. Robert Graves
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. Dorothy Parker
Inflation is taxation without legislation. Milton Friedman
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
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
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
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have. Will Rogers
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket. Will Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need. Will Rogers
If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. Earl Wilson Click to tweet
The funny thing is, the people who work really hard, they work really hard so they can sit on their ass – they just want to sit on their ass in nicer surroundings. Karl Pilkington
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde
Someone asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. Gloria Steinem
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. Zig Ziglar
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O’Rourke
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. Kinky Friedman
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping. Gertrude Stein
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. George Carlin
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Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Unknown Click to tweet
There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise. Mary Kay Ash
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Ayn Rand
I refuse to apologize for my ability – I refuse to apologize for my success – I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it. Ayn Rand
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. Woodrow Wilson
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
Making money is a common sense. It’s not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon. Robert T. Kiyosaki
You either make sense or you make money. R. Buckminster Fuller
When you’re finally wealthy, you’ll realize that it wasn’t what you were seeking in the first place. Naval Ravikant
He sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. Dalai Lama
Rich people stay rich by living like they are broke. Broke people stay broke by living like they are rich. Unknown
You were not born to just pay bills and die. Unknown
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. Marlene Dietrich Click to tweet
When you know how to make money, you’re obligated to. Marshall Sylver
It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus
Money is the alienated essence of man’s work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it. Karl Marx
Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it. Frank A. Clark
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King Jr
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. Kahlil Gibran
So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. Alan Watts
It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end. Billy Idol
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. Henry Ford
Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. Publilius Syrus
You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive. R. Buckminster Fuller
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Frugality includes all the other virtues. Cicero Click to tweet
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Epictetus (Enchiridion)
Just because you can afford it doesn’t mean you should buy it. Suze Orman
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. William Shakespeare
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. Confucius
You don’t get rich by spending your time to save money. You get rich by saving your time to make money. Naval Ravikant
Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in. Robert T. Kiyosaki
Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success – and success is in direct proportion to our service. Earl Nightingale
Real wealth is not about money. Real wealth is: not having to go to meetings, not having to spend time with jerks, not being locked into status games, not feeling like you have to say “yes”, not worrying about others claiming your time and energy.
Real wealth is about freedom. James Clear
Human beings are much bigger than just making money. Muhammad Yunus
In the Middle Ages, the rich spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries, whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today, the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments while the less well go into debt buying cars and televisions they don’t really need. Yuval Noah Harari
The supreme commandment of the rich is ‘Invest! The supreme commandment of the rest of us is Buy! Yuval Noah Harari
Wealth does not make people happy, but positive increases in wealth may. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Do not spend what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving. Warren Buffett
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art. Berthold Auerbach
Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it. George S. Clason (The Richest Man In Babylon)
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy. Izaak Waldon
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen
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
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. Agesilaus
Remember that the only purpose of money is to get you what you want, so think hard about what you value and put it above money. Ray Dalio
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. Douglas Adams
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. Richard M. DeVos
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. Jonathan Swift Click to tweet
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. Miguel de Cervantes
Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day. Sarah Ban Breathnach
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. Seneca
See also: 7 Lessons about Money and Life
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. Plato Click to tweet
Don’t go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy. Marianne Williamson
If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. Vicki Robin (Your Money Or Your Life)
While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. Groucho Marx
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
Find something you love to do. If you don’t make money at it, at least you love going to work. Mark Cuban
If you weren’t happy yesterday you won’t be happy tomorrow. It’s money. It’s not happiness. Mark Cuban
The more you stress over bills, the more difficult it is to focus on your goals. The cheaper you can live, the greater your options Mark Cuban
Happiness starts with you. Not with your relationships, not with your job, not with your money, but with you. Unknown
If you want to feel rich, just count all the gifts you have that money can’t buy. Unknown
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
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Benjamin Franklin
Making money isn’t the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you’re doing something you love, you’re more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money. Warren Buffett
You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy. Garth Brooks
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. Thomas Jefferson
I have always enjoyed a simple lifestyle. I have very modest needs in terms of material comfort. Li Ka Shing
I would like to do more meaningful deeds. I don’t care how much money or how much energy it takes. I have very simple needs. With the blessings that I have received, I have no need for more wealth. Li Ka Shing
Life’s value is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of true happiness. Steven Redhead
For me, the best things in life — meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures — are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money. Ray Dalio
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. But once you get much beyond that, I have to tell you, it’s the same hamburger. Bill Gates (Microsoft)
I’m not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn’t bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation. William Clay Ford, Jr.
It’s easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket. Craig Ferguson
Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. Mike Ditka
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
The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don’t celebrate those, they can pass you by. Alek Wek
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. Henry Miller
In a heart filled with gratitude, there is no room for discontentment. Rachel Cruze
Possessions make you rich? I don’t have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever. Bob Marley
Do what you love and the money will follow. Marsha Sinetar
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau Click to tweet
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A good reputation is more valuable than money. Publilius Syrus Click to tweet
Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third. Angelina Jolie
My principles are more important than the money or my title. Muhammad Ali
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Charles R. Swindoll
Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn’t the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don’t do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich. Dave Ramsey
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
Never go into business purely to make money. If that’s the motive you’re better off doing nothing. Richard Branson
I am not impressed by money, social status or job title. I’m impressed by the way someone treats other human beings. Unknown
There are some things that money can’t buy… like manners, morals and integrity. Unknown
If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. Henry Kravis
How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world. Vicki Robin (Your Money Or Your Life) Click to tweet
If you’re chasing money, you’ll always be lacking. Chase purpose and money will chase you. Tony Gaskins
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale
Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give. Adam Neumann
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence. Dada Vaswani
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. Marian Wright Edelman
There are things that might bring in a lot of money but I wouldn’t do. A person has to be able to look beyond money. As long as we can keep our dignity, life becomes more meaningful. Li Ka Shing
Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you. Navel Ravikant
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. John Ruskin
Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value. Joe Biden
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Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble. Shirley Temple Click to tweet
Show me where a man spends his time and money, and I’ll show you his god. Martin Luther
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. Jim Rohn
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg
Instead of buying stuff, buy time. Spending money to save time boosts happiness. Adam Grant
Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. Michael Leboeuf
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation. Zig Ziglar
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
Time is money. Benjamin Franklin
Be selective with who you invest your time. Wasted time is worse than wasted money. Unknown Click to tweet
To say that “time is money” is a grotesque undervaluation of time. You can lose a fortune and make another one. Lost time is irretrievable. Do not trade time for trifles. The Stoic Emperor
They say time is money, but that’s not true. You can make your money back. Steven Griffith
Time and money are mostly interchangeable. Winston Churchill
See also: 10 Ways To Save Time Every Day
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Money is usually attracted, not pursued. Jim Rohn Click to tweet
All that spirits desire, spirits attain. Kahlil Gibran
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. Wayne W. Dyer
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
Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. Napoleon Hill
You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality. Ernest Holmes
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. Norman Vincent Peale
Abundance is a mindset, not a dollar amount. Cultivate gratitude for the things you have now and everything that is added will feel like a bonus. Tony Robbins
Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be. Abraham Hicks
See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works, it works every time with every person. Bob Proctor
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. Eckhart Tolle
The Law of Attraction states that whatever you focus on, think about, read about, and talk about intensely, you’re going to attract more of into your life. Jack Canfield
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you; for everyone who asks, receives. The Bible
If you are feeling a shortage of time or money, your best effort would be to focus upon better-feeling thoughts, and do more things that make you feel good. Abraham Hicks
Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. David R. Hawkins
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Allen
Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich)
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there. Richard Bach Click to tweet
What you focus on you create more of. Jen Sincero (You Are a Badass at Making Money)
The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you. Rhonda Byrne (The Secret)
Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Rhonda Byrne
See also: How To Attract Money The Spiritual Way
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A simple “I love you” means more than money. Frank Sinatra Click to tweet
He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days. Unknown
Love is the most expensive gift. Make sure you don’t give it to someone that’s cheap. Unknown
Love of money is the disease which makes men most groveling and pitiful. Cassius Longinus
Love is worth so much more than money. There are so many people who are filthy rich, but have nobody to genuinely love them. Unconditional love is priceless. Suzy Kassem
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. Amy Carmichael
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. Satchel Paige
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
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. Ralph W. Sockman
Love is like money… hard to find easy to lose. Ally Mbululo
A man in love is like a clipped coupon — it’s time to cash in. Mae West
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. Mae West
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau Click to tweet
Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money. Satchel Paige
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. Jackie Kennedy
You’d be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn’t do for love. Rachel Caine
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland
Love is like money… hard to find easy to lose. Ally Mbululo
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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go. Margaret Walker Click to tweet
Money doesn’t make people happy. People make people happy. Steve Wynn
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. Agatha Christie
Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. Will Smith
Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. Spike Milligan
Making money is a happiness. And that’s a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. Muhammad Yunus
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family. Barbara Corcoran (Shark Tank)
It doesn’t take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time. Marianne Williamson
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. Billy Graham
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Mark Twain
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. Katherine Whitehorn
I believe in giving my kids enough so they can do anything, but not so much that they can do nothing. Warren Buffett
How much would you sell a good relationship for? There’s not enough money in the world to get you to part with a valued relationship. Ray Dalio
Remember that in great partnerships, consideration and generosity are more important than money. Ray Dalio
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler Click to tweet
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Teaching kids about money is never just about money. Dave Ramsey Click to tweet
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know. T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind)
A child must be taught early that money is only a means, a type of usefulness, an implement. Like all instruments, it has certain purposes, but it will not do everything. One must learn how to use it, what it will do, but above all what it will not do. Bruce Lee
Schools teach you how to work for money, but don’t teach how to make money work for you. Robert T. Kiyosaki
Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge. Robert T. Kiyosaki
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. Barack Obama
Don’t be impressed by money, followers, degrees and titles. Be impressed by kindness, integrity, humility and generosity. Unknown
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
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have. Brian Tracy
What is important when you are young is to train yourself to get by with little money and make the most of your youthful energy. Robert Greene
Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect. Robert Greene
Value learning over money. Robert Greene
There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves. Marianne Williamson
Study the biographies of those who have built great fortunes, and you will learn that money came to them after they had produced or discovered something. William J. Reilly
True happiness lies in the pursuit of your goal, achievement in your chosen field. This must always remain primary. Whenever money becomes primary, you are on treacherous ground. William J. Reilly
Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life. Charlie Munger Click to tweet
You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. Tom Hopkins
If you want your income to grow, you too must grow. Idowu Koyenikan
My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money… but lots of love. Hilda Solis
The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don’t celebrate those, they can pass you by. Alek Wek
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. Katharine Whitehorn
That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded. George S. Clason (The Richest Man In Babylon)
If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential. Ray Dalio (Principles)
You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. Tom Hopkins
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money. Voltaire
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See also: 15 Ways to Teach Kids About Money
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Making money is not a thing that you do – it’s a skill that you learn. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet
What you do, and how you do it, is so much more important than how hard you do it. Naval Ravikant
Money never comes from hard work. Money comes from being of service and adding value to people’s lives. Ralph Napolitano
If you want to get rich, stop focusing on what you want, focus on what people want. Unknown
If you’re good at something, never do it for free. Jonathan Nolan
The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it. Kate Chopin
Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline. Thomas J. Stanley (The Millionaire Next Door)
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
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. James Russell Lowell
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money. Guy Kawasaki
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head. A. R. Rahman
Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. Muhammad Yunus
Profit or perish… There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs. Fred DeLuca
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford
Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are. James W. Frick
Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you. Tony Hsieh (Zappos)
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
Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow. Thornton Wilder
I like to take risks. That’s how I make money. But they are calculated risks. Kevin O’Leary (Shark Tank)
You get rich connecting with opportunities that can produce and multiply money. You don’t get rich saving money… Missing opportunities is what costs people money. Grant Cardone
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau Click to tweet
Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted. Ray Dalio
There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes. Ray Dalio
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epictetus
See also: 7 Surefire Strategies To Build Massive Wealth According to the Top 7 Finance Books
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford Click to tweet
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. Carter G. Woodson
Perfection is the enemy of profitability. Mark Cuban (Shark Tank)
Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession. Mark Cuban
It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. Mark Cuban
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. Napoleon Hill
We should be focusing on building the things that don’t exist. Larry Page (Google)
There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Milton Friedman
Put the customers first, the employees second, and the shareholders third. Jack Ma (Alibaba)
What I love doing is creating things I can be proud of, and if you create things that you can be proud of, the byproduct of that can be that you become a millionaire or you become a billionaire, because people like what you’ve created. Richard Branson (Virgin)
We’re never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, (people) who can die for those dreams. Jack Ma
You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale. Naval Ravikant (Check out this amazing Twitter Storm by Naval)
People don’t care about your business they care about their problems… so be the solution they need. Unknown
Start with the customer and work backwards. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. Jeff Bezos
Pay people enough so that they’re not thinking about money and they’re thinking about the work. Once you do that, it turns out there are three factors that the science shows lead to better performance, not to mention personal satisfaction: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Dan Pink (Drive)
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
Don’t start a business. Find a problem. Solve a problem. The business comes second. Robert Herjavec (Shark Tank)
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. Zig Ziglar
If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come. Forrest Mars, Jr.
Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, ‘Don’t worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come’. Bernard Arnault
To do meaningful work is to contribute – to create value in society. Charles Koch
Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company. Carlos Slim Helu
If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you’re going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to ‘be different’. Larry Ellison (Oracle)
Being an entrepreneur isn’t really about starting a business. It’s a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge. Michael Bloomberg
A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets. Li Ka Shing
Reputation is the key to success. You have to be loyal to your customers. Li Ka Shing
America owes 80% of it’s economic growth today to new inventions. Li Ka Shing
Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet
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Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. Warren Buffett Click to tweet
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source. Warren Buffett
Beware the investment activity that produces applause. The great moves are usually greeted by yawns. Warren Buffett
The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient. Warren Buffett
Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years. Warren Buffett
If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes. Warren Buffett
You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity – a piece of a business – to gain your financial freedom. Naval Ravikant
The reason you want wealth is because it buys you freedom. Naval Ravikant
Never spend your money before you have earned it. Thomas Jefferson
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason. Ayn Rand
The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it’s not going to go up, don’t buy it! Will Rogers
The art is not in making money, but in keeping it. Proverb
Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest. Unknown
If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring. George Soros
Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game. Benjamin Graham (The Intelligent Investor)
I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. George Soros
A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin Click to tweet
The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went. Unknown
To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble. Ray Dalio
A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected. Jim Cramer
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some. Joe Moore
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. James Madison
Put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. Andrew Carnegie
If you would become wealthy, then what you save must earn, and its children must earn, that all may help to give to you the abundance you crave. George S. Clason (The Richest Man in Babylon)
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
In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable. Robert Arnott
Money speaks only one language: “If you save me today, I will save you tomorrow”. Unknown
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. Benjamin Franklin
Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. Jack Benny
Don’t think in terms of taking huge risks to get rewards. Think about the least amount of risk for the greatest reward, and be extremely disciplined in that. Tony Robbins
To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep. David Bailey
Whatever your income, always live below your means. Thomas J. Stanley (The Millionaire Next Door)
Know what you own, and know why you own it. Peter Lynch
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He who promises runs in debt. The Talmud Click to tweet
Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. Nathan W. Morris
You will either tell your money what to do, or the lack of it will always manage you. Dave Ramsey
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing. Thomas Tusser
Debt is the worst poverty. Thomas Fuller
Borrowing is the mother of trouble. Hebrew proverb
Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. Andrew Jackson
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. Benjamin Franklin
Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt. Benjamin Franklin
The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. Benjamin Franklin
Creditors have better memories than debtors. Benjamin Franklin
Don’t let your mouth write no check that your tail can’t cash. Bo Diddley
When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. Bill Balance
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. Ambrose Bierce (The Devil’s Dictionary)
Promises make debts, and debts make promises, but promises never pay debts… Charles H. Spurgeon (Plain Advice for Plain People)
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn’t expect to be paid back. Unknown
The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor. Unknown
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. American proverb
You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it. Stephen Richards Click to tweet
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Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw Click to tweet
If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees. Guy Kawasaki
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. Carl Sandburg
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Arthur Schopenhauer
Defining success as money and power is like sitting on a two-legged stool. Arianna Huffington
Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue. Andy Stanley
Money is like oxygen: you need it to breathe, but it can also suffocate you. Jack Dorsey (Twitter)
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. Margaret Thatcher
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. Dave Ramsey
If you worship money and things – if they are where you tap real meaning in life – then you will never have enough. David Foster Wallace (This Is Water)
Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t. D.H. Lawrence
Money is the wealthy man’s curtain which hides all his defects from the world. Unknown
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. C. Wright Mills
Many have jeopardized their own pursuit of wealth or financial independence for the allusion of looking wealthy instead of being wealthy. Andrew Hallam (Millionaire Teacher)
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. George Orwell
Money without brains is always dangerous. Napoleon Hill
The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Ayn Rand
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man’s true worth. Criss Jami
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don’t like doing, which is stupid. Alan Watts
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. Margaret Thatcher
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale
They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money. George Saville
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep. Ray Davies
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. Simone Weil
There are no get rich quick schemes. That’s just someone else getting rich off you. Naval Ravikant
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding Click to tweet
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No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank Click to tweet
Your dream is to feel good; God’s dream is for you to do good. Shannon L. Alder
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members. Pearl S. Buck
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. Emanuel Swedenborg
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we’d want to get involved. Bill Gates
Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world. Melinda Gates
The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations. Michael Bloomberg
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. Homer
To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task. Sophocles Click to tweet
I’m going to give away a lot more than half my money. I’d be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I’m giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people. Ray Dalio
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement. Martin Luther King Jr
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters. Amit Ray
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Philanthropy is not about money, it’s about feeling the pain of others and caring enough about their needs to help. Timothy Pina
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. Louisa May Alcott
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. Henry Ward Beecher
My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. Steve Wozniak (Apple)
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