104 Inspiring Money Quotes

In a world where financial pressures and aspirations often dominate our thoughts, a few wise words can offer clarity and encouragement. Throughout history, philosophers, writers, and leaders have shared their insights on wealth, money management, and financial freedom. These nuggets of wisdom not only inspire but also challenge our perceptions and approach to money. Whether you're looking to boost your financial mindset or simply seeking inspiration, these 104 curated quotes provide the perfect blend of motivation and reflection. Dive in and discover how these timeless words can guide you towards a more enriched perspective on money.

1. “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

2. “Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want. ” - Margaret Young

3. “I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.” - Dodie Smith

4. “And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.” - Dodie Smith

5. “Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

6. “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

7. “Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.” - Hunter S. Thompson

8. “A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.” - Ernst Jünger

9. “It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” - Albert Camus

10. “Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by concentrating all his abilities on the amassing of wealth?'Exactly; that is the real distinction between the artist and the bourgeois, or, if you prefer it, between the gentleman and the cad. Money, and the things money can buy, have no value, for there is no question of creation, but only of exchange. Houses, lands, gold, jewels, even existing works of art, may be tossed about from one hand to another; they are so, constantly. But neither you nor I can write a sonnet; and what we have, our appreciation of art, we did not buy. We inherited the germ of it, and we developed it by the sweat of our brows. The possession of money helped us, but only by giving us time and opportunity and the means of travel. Anyhow, the principle is clear; one must sacrifice the lower to the higher, and, as the Greeks did with their oxen, one must fatten and bedeck the lower, so that it may be the worthier offering.” - Aleister Crowley

11. “All wars are sacred,” he said. “To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles. But so few people ever realize it. Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators. Sometimes the rallying cry is ’save the Tomb of Christ from the Heathen!’ Sometimes it’s ’down with Popery!’ and sometimes ‘Liberty!’ and sometimes ‘Cotton, Slavery and States’ Rights!” - Margaret Mitchell

12. “Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.” - Amy Dacyczyn

13. “The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.” - Amy Dacyczyn

14. “Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. ” - Horace

15. “This is so much money that it scares the shit out of me. I don't know how to handle it. I don't know the purpose of the company besides making more money. What's all the money going to be used for?” - Stieg Larsson

16. “He thinks we're made of money.” - Kristin Cashore

17. “Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.” - Ambrose Bierce

18. “Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone carelessly. But not for the first time, such giving was not pain. He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than life itself - clothes upon the body of his son.” - Pearl S. Buck

19. “When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.” - Napoleon Hill

20. “An old liar told me hereTo think ahead and save my money.I should have spent it on ribbons.I should have learned the tune my dead grandfather playedWhen the daft wife heard him resoundingIn the deep pine woods in early November.” - Menzies McKillop

21. “Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country that way.” - Raymond Chandler

22. “Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.” - Emma Frances Dawson

23. “What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- 'Thou shalt make money'; the other for the employed- the slaves and underlings'- 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.' It was about this time that he came across The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and read about the starving carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra. The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.” - George Orwell

24. “The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.” - George Orwell

25. “The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.” - George Bernard Shaw

26. “Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.” - Paul Kyriazi

27. “You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...” - Wilhelm Reich

28. “Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.” - Cormac McCarthy

29. “Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.” - Jeffrey Eugenides

30. “Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.” - George Carlin

31. “Lack of money is the root of all evil.” - George Bernard Shaw

32. “Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist.” - Ashly Lorenzana

33. “The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.” - George Soros

34. “She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center of the shopping complex's ground floor.The scene was a swirl of candy bright lights--the Victoria's Secret fuchsia signboard, signboards which lured one to purchase "confidence," or "sexual appeal," or whatever it was that was being advertised--the fluorescent lights in each store, contrasting with the shiny, black-tiled walls and eye-catching speckled marble tiles on the ground.One could lick the floor--the tiles were spotless, clean like the fake air she was breathing in, like the atoms and cells in her that were decaying in stale neglect.” - Jess C. Scott

35. “Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.” - Candace Bushnell

36. “As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.” - Penn Jillette

37. “Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.” - David Lee Roth

38. “Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.” - John Hersey

39. “Haven't you enough money?'For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.” - Stella Gibbons

40. “If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.” - Jess C. Scott

41. “Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.” - Tamora Pierce

42. “What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.” - Alain De Botton

43. “Money is a great servant but a bad master.” - Francis Bacon

44. “I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.” - G.I. Gurdjieff

45. “The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.” - Stephen Richards

46. “The cosmic believer needs the energy of the universe to survive spiritually.” - Stephen Richards

47. “To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion.” - Mitch McConnell

48. “Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.” - Stephen Richards

49. “When you are drowned by your sorry state, and you feel as if you are carried away from the road that leads to your desires, you should know that you are the one responsible for being led away from the right path.” - Stephen Richards

50. “Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.” - Stephen Richards

51. “In the spiritual world many forms of the physical universe that are potentially effective can be perceived but with regard to time, we can observe only one form.” - Stephen Richards

52. “Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.” - Stephen Richards

53. “The first rule in making money is not to lose it.” - Steven J. Lee

54. “Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now.” - Steven J. Lee

55. “After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.” - Criss Jami

56. “When you put your passion into your desire, when it becomes a fire that threatens to consume you unless you have it, then your will is in the right place.” - Stephen Richards

57. “To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)” - Dorothy L. Sayers

58. “When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)” - Sophie Kinsella

59. “Look at a coin from your pocket. On one side is "heads" - the symbol of the political authority which minted the coin; on the other side is "tails" - the precise specification of the amount the coin is worth as payment in exchange. One side reminds us that states underwrite currencies and the money is originally a relation between persons in society, a token perhaps. The other reveals the coin as a thing, capable of entering into definite relations with other things.” - Keith Hart

60. “In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694, a consortium of English bankers made a loan of £1,200,000 to the king. In return they received a royal monopoly on the issuance of banknotes. What this meant in practice was they had the right to advance IOUs for a portion of the money the king now owed them to any inhabitant of the kingdom willing to borrow from them, or willing to deposit their own money in the bank—in effect, to circulate or "monetize" the newly created royal debt. This was a great deal for the bankers (they got to charge the king 8 percent annual interest for the original loan and simultaneously charge interest on the same money to the clients who borrowed it) , but it only worked as long as the original loan remained outstanding. To this day, this loan has never been paid back. It cannot be. If it ever were, the entire monetary system of Great Britain would cease to exist.” - David Graeber

61. “The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.” - Christopher Penczak

62. “When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)” - D. H. Lawrence

63. “I spend my money...I don't know on what.” - Mike Nichols

64. “Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.” - John Lanchester

65. “Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.” - Richard Russo

66. “Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.” - John Steinbeck

67. “I don't like bullshit and pretense.I can't enjoy the joy at church...without some cash in my wallet.” - Toba Beta

68. “Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

69. “Money doesn't bring you happiness, it brings you the freedom to find it.” - H.G. Mewis

70. “Businessman sat in his car calculating the net worth of everyone who passed and he noticed something peculiar. While some people were worth millions and other people were deep in debt, they all looked stressed and worried. He concluded that there is only one amount of money – just not enough.” - Andrew Kaufman

71. “When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten.” - Stephen Richards

72. “Some people only dream of success… while others wake up and use Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

73. “It started out as kind of a joke, and then it wasn't funny anymore because money became involved. Deep down, nothing about money is funny.” - Charles Willeford

74. “Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.” - Bruce Robinson

75. “Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.” - Randy Alcorn

76. “Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.” - Harry Crosby

77. “A heart anchored in money will only drift away.” - Anthony Liccione

78. “The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.” - Alan Furst

79. “The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.” - Niall Ferguson

80. “The more I pursue God, the more I realize that he is inherently different from us. He does not protect his possessions and hoard his toys. He does not look forways to make us jealous of him, though he, the God Most High, is jealous for us.” - John D. Richardson

81. “Forget what they told you. You want the truth, follow the money.” - Roxanne Bland

82. “The Tanakh teaches that, “The diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor”. Most Jews work for themselves and hire employees instead of being employees.” - H.W. Charles

83. “The Jews are known for their perseverance and this is what helps them achieve their goals. Perseverance means continuous persistence in a course of action, a purpose, in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.” - H.W. Charles

84. “[...] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.''We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.” - Charles Dickens

85. “A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.” - George R.R. Martin

86. “Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

87. “To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.” - Stephen Richards

88. “Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money.” - Markham Shaw Pyle

89. “What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have been smart enough to learn a lesson that we're awfully slow to get... They know that being rich doesn't have any damn thing to do with how much money you've got. It's got to do with are you happy and are you content.” - Rachel Dickinson

90. “Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.” - John Hagee

91. “Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on money. The believer's attitude toward money and possessions is determinative.” - John F. MacArthur Jr.

92. “I am the Trolley of Love. Free rides before noon and after 11:58 am!
” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo

93. “We're very near a certain point where money doesn't mean anything... They say: How much money is this going to cost? This is really a totally meaningless concept. Money determines less and less our reality. Money is not constant factor, it's simply a process dependent entirely on acceptance for its existence. We already see situations without money, and I think that we're coming closer and closer to it.” - William S. Burroughs

94. “Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.” - Kim Stanley Robinson

95. “I didn’t know what to spend it on, ’cause my mum said she didn’t want me to buy her nothing. So I was going to buy Larry something, but he said I should spend it on something I always wanted. So I bought a cat.” - J.L. Merrow

96. “She had golden blazing sun kissed hair, which hung down in loose, lazy spirals, a heart shaped pouted mouth, which was pink tinged with violet blushing, wide, spangled blue eyes that glimmered sparks to flicker and ember in the vivid intelligence of the moon’s love, and a yielding body, that seem to tangle in loose rhythm as I walked near to her.” - Keira D. Skye

97. “In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

98. “Always contend for the good!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

99. “Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

100. “Drown those degrading thoughts.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

101. “Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

102. “Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.” - Seymour Papert

103. “Never reject an idea because you don't have the money, manpower, muscle, or months to achieve it!” - Syed Ather

104. “olhe, hoje é possível reviver o fascismo, quer saber. é possível na perfeição. basta ser-se trabalhador dependente. é o suficiente para perceber o que é comer e calar, e por vezes nem comer, só calar. vá espirar esses patrões por aí fora. conte pelos dedos os que têm no peito um coração a florescer de amor pelo proletariado. que porra de conversa comunista. mas não é possível deixar de ter conversas comunistas enquanto não se largar a merda das ideias do capitalismo de circo que está montado. um capitalismo de especulação no qual o trabalho não corresponde a riqueza e já nem a mérito, apenas a um fardo do qual há quem não se consiga livrar.” - valter hugo mãe