When you need advice about your finances, it’s often quite inspirational, interesting, and even funny to research the opinions of famous businessmen, thinkers, and celebrities. Check out our 50 favorite money quotes below: we hope they can help you change your attitude towards money in a positive way.
1. “Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.” Spike Milligan
2. “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
3. “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” Jonathan Swift
4. “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” Donald Trump
5. “Money often costs too much.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.” Henry David Thoreau
7. “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
8. “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” Jim Rohn
9. “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” Erich Fromm
10. “Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” Miguel de Cervantes
11. “There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.” Robert Graves
12. “I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” Pablo Picasso
13. “When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” Voltaire
14. “Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.” Carl Sandburg
15. “It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” Oscar Wilde
16. “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
17. “What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.” Seneca
18. “You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.” Johnny Depp
19. “The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” Proverb
20. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” Thomas Jefferson
21. “Money is the wise man’s religion.” Euripides
22. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.” Warren Buffett
23. “Put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.” Andrew Carnegie
24. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.” William Shakespeare
25. “Money is like muck—not good unless it be spread.” Francis Bacon
26. “Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” Ronald Reagan
27. “Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.” Robert Frost
28. “When I had money everyone called me brother.” Polish proverb
29. “For I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love.” The Beatles
30. “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” Earl Wilson
31. “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
32. “Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.” Will Rogers
33. “My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil.” JP Getty.
34. “I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died” Malcolm Forbes
35. “Frugality includes all the other virtues.” Cicero
36. “Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.” Gandhi
37. “He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.” Eleanor Roosevelt
38. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
39. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn
40. “A treasure is to be valued for its own sake and not for what it will buy.” Graham Greene
41. “The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.” Woodrow Wilson
42. “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
43. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Edison
44. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin
45. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” Zig Ziglar
46. “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.” Robert Arnott
47. “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
48. “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
49. “Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.” Henry Fielding
50. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” Ben Franklin
What’s your favorite money quote? Who is your role model when it comes to finances?
