100 Money Quotes about Investment and Financial Freedom

Money has become an integral part of our lives, both practically and socially. In today’s world, money is a necessity for buying goods and services and making business transactions. For individuals and families, money is essential for providing financial security and stability. Money is also necessary for achieving certain goals in life such as education and career.

However, it is important to remember that money should not be the main focus of life and should be used responsibly. Money should never be more important than family, friends, and other more meaningful pursuits.

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Here is a collection of well-chosen money quotes that will not only keep you motivated but also alter the way in which you view and interact with money. Enjoy these uplifting money motivation quotes.

25 Best Money Quotes

1. Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like. –Will Rogers

2. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. –Jonathan Swift

3. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. –Epictetus

4. Money often costs too much. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. Every day is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, and we’ve got 24 hours each. –Christopher Rice

6. It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. –David Feherty

7. Frugality includes all the other virtues. –Cicero

8. 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

9. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

10. I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy. –Warren Buffett

11. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. –Charles Dickens

12. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. –Thomas Edison

13. 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

14. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years. –Warren Buffett

15. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. –Yogi Berra

16. 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

17. 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

18. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. –Jim Rohn

19. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. –Ayn Rand

20. 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

21. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. –Seneca

22. It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. –Henry Ford

23. He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend loses much more; He who loses faith loses all. –Eleanor Roosevelt

24. 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

25. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. –Norman Vincent Peale

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26. 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

27. 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

28. Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing. – J. Paul Getty

29. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. –Henry Ford

30. If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. –George Bernard Shaw

31. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. –Robert G. Allen

32. I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. –Malcolm Forbes

33. “Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

34. The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. –Anonymous

35. Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. –-P.T. Barnum

36. Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. –Jack Benny

37. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. –Henry David Thoreau

38. The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. –Ben Graham

39. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. –Thomas Jefferson

40. You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey

41. 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

42. Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. –Nathan W. Morris

43. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. –Zig Ziglar

44. Never spend your money before you have it. –Thomas Jefferson

45. The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. –Phillip Fisher

46. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. –Benjamin Franklin

47. 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 Kiyosaki

48. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. –Thomas A. Edison

49. If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it. –Kim Garst

50. Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. The only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. –Steve Jobs

25 Best Quotes on Money

51. The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains forethought, and so broadens the mind. –T.T. Munger

52. Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” –Joe Biden

53. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. –Vicki Robin

54. Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. –William A. Ward

55. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. –Winston Churchill

56. 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

57. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – Albert Einstein

58. It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. –Vince Lombardi

59. It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important. –Zig Ziglar

60. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. –David Brinkley

61. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his presents. –Roger Babson

62. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. –John Wayne

63. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi

64. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. –Mark Twain

65. It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -J. K Rowling

66. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce Lee

67. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. –Dale Carnegie

68. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

69. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. –Robert Kiyosaki

70. “Money is not the most important thing in life but it ranks right up there with oxygen.” – Zig Ziglar

71. “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.” – Kin Hubbard

72. “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.” – Clare Boothe Luce

73. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato

74. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar

75. A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. –Henry Kravis

25 Money Motivation Quotes

76. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. –Donald Trump

77. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. –Vidal Sassoon

78. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill

79. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. –Benjamin Franklin

80. If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. –Chris Guillebeau

81. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

82. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. –Lao Tzu

83. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. –Oprah Winfrey

84. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

85. The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. –Warren Buffett

86. I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. –George Soros

87. Persist – don’t take no for an answer. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years. –David Rubenstein

88. If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor. –Charlie Munger

89. When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? –Rene Rivkin

90. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks. –John Bogle

91. My old father used to have a saying:  If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. –Abraham Lincoln

92. It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. –Eleanor Roosevelt

93. The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ –Sir John Templeton

94. I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. –Pablo Picasso

95. Fortune sides with him who dares. –Virgil

96. Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. –Arthur Schopenhauer

97. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. –Edmund Burke

98. No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. –Plato

99. My formula for success is to rise early, work late, and strike oil. –JP Getty

100. “The best thing money can buy is financial freedom.”

Ways to Earn Money as Students

Are you looking for ways to save money? Here are some ways to earn money in your high school or college days:

1. Look for part-time or freelance jobs.

2. Start tutoring or teaching classes.

3. Start an online store and sell handmade crafts or products.

4. Join an online marketplace and sell your skills or services.

5. Start a business in your local community.

6. Invest in stocks and bonds.

7. Become a virtual assistant.

8. Become a pet sitter or dog walker.

9. Become a tutor or coach.

10. Rent out your space or items.

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