I thought I’d share some of my most favorite motivational and funny famous quotes about money here on my blog. Not everyone is on the same level when it comes to making money, however, little quotes like these was what got me going. You’ve got to start somewhere right? These are just some famous sayings that I looked up when I was first beginning. Now that I look at them, it is still a shock that their meanings still hold true moral values when it comes to money making. So, for me, this was like a blast from the past. I wonder if these quotes will inspire you as it had first inspired me.
- “A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” – Jackie Mason
- “Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.” – Kin Hubbard
- “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.” – J. D. Salinger
- “Money is only an idea. If you want more money, simply change your thinking.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
- “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler
- “If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn’t be enough to go around.” – Christina Stead
- “No one can earn a million dollars honestly.” – William Jennings Bryan
- “A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.” – William Shakespeare
- “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” – Donald Trump
- “Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Money without brains is always dangerous.” – Napoleon Hill
- “When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.” – Groucho Marx
- “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” – Robert Orben
- “Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail” – Richard Friedman
- “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” – Earl Wilson
- “A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.” – W. C. Fields
- “Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.” – Albert Einstein
- “A fool and his money are easily parted.” – Proverb
- “Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns
- “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
- “The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.” – Henry Ford
- “Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit … and then put it on automatic pilot.” – Robert G. Allen
- “If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.” – J. Paul Getty
- “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” – Jackie Mason
- “A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” – Jonathan Swift
- “Money is a poor man’s credit card.” – Marshal McLuhan
- “Money alone sets all the world in motion.” – Publilius Syrus
- “Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.” – Rita Rudner
- “Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.” – Robert W. Sarnoff
- “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.” – Senator Everett Dirksen
