60 Inspiring Quotes About Money

In the world of personal finance, money often carries mixed emotions—ranging from empowerment and security to stress and envy. Understanding our relationship with money can be pivotal to achieving financial independence and peace of mind. Whether you're looking to reset your mindset or find motivation in your financial journey, the right words can offer powerful insights and guidance. In this post, we present a thoughtfully curated collection of 60 inspiring quotes about money. These timeless words from wise thinkers, successful entrepreneurs, and renowned leaders may provide the encouragement and perspective needed to navigate your own financial path. Dive in and let these quotes challenge the way you think about money, wealth, and success.

1. “A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned” - Benjamin Franklin

2. “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” - Dorothy Parker

3. “I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.” - David Lee Roth

4. “I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it. ” - Brian Andreas

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

6. “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

7. “The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.” - Will Rogers

8. “Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.” - Roger Lowenstein

9. “Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.” - Besa Kosova

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. “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

12. “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

13. “Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor a money value, and having one of these things was better than having nothing.” - Margaret Atwood

14. “Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.” - Charles Caleb Colton

15. “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

16. “Dont struggle for salary.. DO struggle for Success..” - Bhadra

17. “Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.” - George Gissing

18. “In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.” - Henry Wallace

19. “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

20. “I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.” - Nicholas Sparks

21. “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

22. “99% of all problems can be solved by money -- and for the other 1% there's alcohol.” - Quentin R. Bufogle

23. “Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.” - Vera Nazarian

24. “I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!” - C. JoyBell C.

25. “Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.” - André Chamson

26. “America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John D. Rockefeller made $1 billion a year, measured in today's money, and paid no income tax. No one did, for income tax did not yet exist in America. Congress tried to introduce an income tax of 2 percent on earnings of $4,000 in 1894, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Income tax wouldn't become a regular part of American Life until 1914. People would never be this rich again.Spending all this wealth became for many a more or less full-time occupation. A kind of desperate, vulgar edge became attached to almost everything they did. At one New York dinner party, guests found the table heaped with sand and at each place a little gold spade; upon a signal, they were invited to dig in and search for diamonds and other costly glitter buried within. At another party - possibly the most preposterous ever staged - several dozen horses with padded hooves were led into the ballroom of Sherry's, a vast and esteemed eating establishment, and tethered around the tables so that the guests, dressed as cowboys and cowgirls, could enjoy the novel and sublimely pointless pleasure of dining in a New York ballroom on horseback.” - Bill Bryson

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

28. “Your own dreams stand alone, longing to be fulfilled, and you wonder if it will ever happen. You must have faith. Just as the bus was a little late, so too can fulfilment of your desires come a bit late.” - Stephen Richards

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

30. “You don't manifest dreams without taking chances.” - Stephen Richards

31. “The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.” - Stephen Richards

32. “When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.” - Stephen Richards

33. “A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.” - Stephen Richards

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

35. “The basis of Cosmic Ordering is the belief that the universe is not dead matter, but pure energy which responds to our vibrations and to our frequencies.” - Stephen Richards

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

37. “Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?” - Ina May Gaskin

38. “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

39. “How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present” - Robert Walser

40. “On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. It was since that time, when he had stopped being a Samana in his heart, that Siddhartha began to play the game for money and precious things, which he at other times only joined with a smile and casually as a custom of the childlike people, with an increasing rage and passion. He was a feared gambler, few dared to take him on, so high and audacious were his stakes. He played the game due to a pain of his heart, losing and wasting his wretched money in the game brought him an angry joy, in no other way he could demonstrate his disdain for wealth, the merchants' false god, more clearly and more mockingly.” - Hermann Hesse

41. “The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishesinto debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,and brings in perennial interest.” - Frederick Soddy

42. “A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!” - Stephen Richards

43. “On his office wall he had a note to himself: 'Money is necessary--but it isn't too important.' Money meant for him to keep on writing and to go his own way.” - Walter Farley

44. “...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.” - Randy Alcorn

45. “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

46. “If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate.” - Breanna Sampson

47. “No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews.” - H.W. Charles

48. “While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God.” - H.W. Charles

49. “Money is a servant to politicians and the country.But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians has failed.” - Oliver Kemper

50. “[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.” - Andy Stanley

51. “Balancing your money is the key to having enough.” - Elizabeth Warren Amelia Warren Tyagin

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

53. “Even with my deepest soul I knew too well that all of these were just a stairs to heaven.” - Fernando Lachica

54. “Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.” - Napoleon Hill

55. “A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare.” - Habeeb Akande

56. “There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

57. “Don`t descend to the lowest ebb.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

58. “Relish what is good and expedient.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

60. “Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!” - Andrew James Pritchard