126 Inspiring Money Quotes

In a world where financial aspirations and economic challenges often intersect, words hold the power to inspire and transform our perspectives on wealth and success. For centuries, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders have shared their insights on money, offering guidance and motivation to navigate the intricate dance between ambition and prudence. Our curated collection of 126 inspiring money quotes captures this wisdom, providing a wellspring of inspiration whether you're embarking on a new financial journey or seeking to deepen your understanding of prosperity. Let these quotes not only motivate but also challenge your thinking, inviting you to reflect on your own relationship with money and encouraging a mindset geared toward growth and abundance.

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. “Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.” - seneca

3. “You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.” - Eddie Izzard

4. “Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.” - Charles Dickens

5. “Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.” - Bill Vaughan

6. “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” - Anne Herbert

7. “If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.” - Ben Affleck

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

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

10. “I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.” - Hunter S. Thompson

11. “Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.” - Robert J. McCracken

12. “The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.” - Paul Auster

13. “He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands” - Stephen King

14. “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” - William Gibson

15. “The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'Said [author:Diogenes|3213618, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".” - Anthony de Mello

16. “The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.” - Georg Simmel

17. “As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.” - Gustave Flaubert

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

19. “You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.” - Raymond Chandler

20. “They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.” - Margaret Atwood

21. “I wish I had only offered youa sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.''And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.''Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.''Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.''Just let me look at the cash.''No, sir; you are not to be trusted.” - Charlotte Brontë

22. “During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate trial of the president—only the second impeachment hearing in American history—you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down) by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare to say that at least I saw it through.” - Christopher Hitchens

23. “There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.” - Kate Jacobs

24. “You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.” - Edgar Allan Poe

25. “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

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

27. “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

28. “No terreno do dinheiro vence sempre quem tem mais dinheiro” - José Maria Eça de Queirós

29. “While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” - Groucho Marx

30. “As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me.” - Margaret Atwood

31. “America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.” - Ayn Rand

32. “Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.” - Mark Gorman

33. “Tu, tu che non vuoi ch'io mi renda conto della tua posizione, e hai la vanità di mantenere a me la mia; tu che, conservandomi il lusso nel quale vivevo, conservi la distanza morale che ci separa; tu, infine, che non giudichi il mio affetto abbastanza disinteressato per dividere con me quello che possiedi, e basterebbe a vivere insieme felici, mentre preferisci rovinarti, schiavo di un pregiudizio ridicolo. E credi tu davvero ch'io possa paragonare una carrozza e alcuni gioielli col tuo amore? E che il mio bene consista in vanità che accontentano quando non si ha amore per nulla, ma diventano subito meschine quando si ama? Tu pagherai i miei debiti, impegnerai il tuo patrimonio e insomma mi manterrai! Quanto potrà durare tutto ciò? Due o tre mesi, e sarà troppo tardi allora vivere come ti propongo, perché allora tu dovrai accettare tutto da me, ciò che un gentiluomo non può fare. Oggi invece, con i tuoi otto o diecimila franchi di rendita, possiamo vivere. Io venderò il mio superfluo, e da questa sola vendita ricaverò duemila franchi di reddito. Affitteremo un bell'appartamento per tutti e due. L'estate andremo in campagna, non in una casa con questa, ma in una casetta che basti a due persone. Tu sei indipendente, io libera, e siamo giovani: in nome di Dio, Armando, non ricacciarmi nella vita che fui costretta a condurre un giorno.” - Alexandre Dumas-fils

34. “Consider the value of doing what you love and being paid for it! This is truly a golfer’s dream.” - Lorii Myers

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

36. “I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).” - Anthony Hope

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

38. “Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.” - William Makepeace Thackeray

39. “I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.” - William Faulkner

40. “You tap in to this oneness and become part of the universe as a whole.” - Stephen Richards

41. “Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?” - Stephen Richards

42. “Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?” - Stephen Richards

43. “Since extra-sensory perception (ESP) is awareness of the world beyond the senses, it would be inappropriate to term this Sixth Sense ‘extrasensory’.” - Stephen Richards

44. “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

45. “But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams.” - Mary Balogh

46. “When you accomplish the impossible then you can achieve anything.” - Stephen Richards

47. “A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.” - Stephen Richards

48. “What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.” - Stephen Richards

49. “If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.” - Stephen Richards

50. “Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance.” - Stephen Richards

51. “The gratitude that you feel leads to faith in the abundance and with every resonance that radiates from your mind more strong feelings of faith start to reside in you.” - Stephen Richards

52. “If you take any step, no matter how small it is, towards achieving your dreams then you will surely find the right path and reach the abundance that lies in store for you.” - Stephen Richards

53. “With every challenge you face, there is an opportunity hidden that will lead you towards the path of wealth and abundance.” - Stephen Richards

54. “Circumstances, knowledge or birth do not determine the realisation of your desires. It is only you who are blocking the achievement of your dreams and goals.” - Stephen Richards

55. “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

56. “On the other hand, if the future is not the one you chose then you may have to use your willpower to obtain the future of your liking.” - Stephen Richards

57. “According to the Law of Attraction, the physical reality that you experience at present is drawn towards the future probability you desired when it attains more power.” - Stephen Richards

58. “Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.” - Stephen Richards

59. “Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.” - Stephen Richards

60. “When you begin to actively participate in the creation of your life, there is never an end, even in death, for physics tells us that nothing is ever created nor destroyed, merely transformed.” - Stephen Richards

61. “Some find that they are content with little, while others find that they want much, much more. Still others create and manifest many things, only to later discover that it was the creation which brought them greater joy and satisfaction, more so than the actual possession or enjoyment of those creations.” - Stephen Richards

62. “If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.” - Stephen Richards

63. “Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.” - Stephen Richards

64. “If you align your vibrations and frequencies with those things you desire, you will acquire them.” - Stephen Richards

65. “The Most Dangerous Book In America” - Michael Mayhem

66. “من عادة النواب أن يثرثروا عند النظر في الميزانية، ومن عادة الحكومة أن تعد بالنظر في تحقيق رغبات النواب في أقرب فرصة، ومن عادة هذه الفرصة ألا تقترب أبدا.” - نجيب محفوظ

67. “There is nothing around me but money, money, money.” - Stephen Richards

68. “He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange.” - Robert A. Heinlein

69. “Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.” - Maureen Johnson

70. “I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-set.” - John Piper

71. “Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.” - Michael Connelly

72. “A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my -- dealer -- here tells me that in fact a picture is worth only what someone will give for it. How much money do you have?"Julia took out her purse and counted. "Four francs and twenty sous," she said, looking up at him sadly."Is that all the money you have in the world?"She nodded."Then four francs and twenty sous it is.” - Iain Pears

73. “... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.” - Daisy Goodwin

74. “The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.” - Barry Unsworth

75. “Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn’t blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen.” - Roman Payne

76. “No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.” - Haruki Murakami

77. “Если есть деньги, человек не замечает ничего, даже подлости. Человек - это такое животное, которое видит только деньги; стоит почуять деньги, ничего другого не видит и не слышит. Оттого столько несчастий в этих краях...” - Jorge Amado

78. “People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves” - Ben Elton

79. “Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

80. “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

81. “I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.” - Steven Herrick

82. “Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck” - Celso Cukierkorn

83. “For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

84. “Success comes in a lot of ways, but it doesn't come with money and it doesn't come with fame. It comes from having a meaning in your life, doing what you love and being passionateabout what you do. That's having a life of success. When you have the ability to do what you love, love what you do and have the ability to impact people. That's having a life of success. That's what having a life of meaning is.” - Tim Tebow

85. “If you always try to measure yourself withmoney... well, it's like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you'll have to show for it.” - Steven J. Carroll

86. “Believe and achieve with Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

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

88. “In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

89. “There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

90. “We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.” - George Lee Mallory

91. “The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.” - Rhonda Byrne

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

93. “Money & success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” - Will Smith

94. “How arrogant you areTo think your wretched Self so singular!The disappointments of this world will dieIn less time than the blinking of an eye,And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth;What empty foolishness it is to careFor what must one day be dispersed to air!” - Farid ud-Din Attar

95. “E eu pergunto aos economistas políticos, aos moralistas, se já calcularam o número de indivíduos que é forçoso condenar à miséria, ao trabalho desproporcionado, à desmoralização, à infâmia, à ignorância crapulosa, à desgraça invencível, à penúria absoluta, para produzir um rico?” - Almeida Garrett

96. “It made Daniel think. The people who had the least were the most willing to share. He outlined a dictum that he would believe the rest of his life: the more people have, the less the give. Similarly, generous cultures produce less waste because excess is shared, whereas stingy nations fill their landfills with leftovers.” - Mark Sundeen

97. “You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.” - Margaret Atwood

98. “Dreams begin when you stop to pick up the penny - you realize the continual effort you must endure to have something worth obtaining.” - Bernice Miller

99. “If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.” - Niall Ferguson

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

101. “Life is like money,When you use it wisely they are plenty.” - Kenneth de Guzman

102. “Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.” - Émile Zola

103. “In love as as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.” - Émile Zola

104. “Money is my drug of choice--and you can't make money if you're always stoned or high. (Twila Taunton in Redneck P.I.)” - Trish Jackson

105. “Jews are estimated to be less than 1% of the world's population yet approximately 25% of the world's billionaires are Jewish.” - H.W. Charles

106. “No matter what your wishes, they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!” - Stephen Richards

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

108. “There's never any great risk as long as you have money.” - E.M. Forster

109. “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

110. “How do we not have money? This is a country of organizations. Everywhere you look people are organizing themselves into groups, one joining many and many morphing into one. They have money, let's have at some of it.” - Sergio De La Pava

111. “Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?” - John Wesley

112. “I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before. The child is invariably anxious for others to join in the great adventure. It's something that can only be understood by actual experience. Those who've begun the journey, and certainly those who've gone further than I, will readily understand what I am saying.” - Randy Alcorn

113. “Traditionally men have created a deep split between the inner and outer world, between body and soul, between the material and spiritual world, between love and money and between male and female qualities. The inner man and woman are related to money, creativity and financial abundance. Through investigating the roots of the inner man and woman, we can find the creative potential of both the inner man and woman. Sometimes can either the inner man or woman also provide financial support for both sides, while the other side has the idea that it cannot support itself financially.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

114. “I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.” - Saki

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

116. “So you think money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim you product by tears, or of looters, who can take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?” - Ayn Rand

117. “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

118. “Ride higher in life unto the higher life.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

119. “Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

120. “You have been called to a life of blessing, don`t descend to that of curses.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

121. “Eschew evil and it`s machinations.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

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

124. “You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

125. “Money has no religion except itself.” - Louis de Bernières

126. “It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple doors, when the priests lit the fires on the altars, to deceive the populace into ascribing to a deity what was the work of the engineer. In much the same way today, the almost boundless fecundity of the creative scientific discoveries and inventions of the age are being appropriated for the purpose of the mysterious opening of doors into the holy of holies of the temples of mammon by a hierarchy of imposters and humbugs, whom it is the first task of a sane civilization to expose and clear out.” - Frederick Soddy