46 Inspiring Quotes on Money and Wealth

Making money and creating wealth is one of my weakest areas – knowledge wise – when it comes to self-improvement.

So I thought it would be useful for me – and hopefully for you too – to put together a list of some of the best quotes on wealth and money that I have come across.

I especially like the ones by William A. Ward, Benjamin Franklin, Gandhi and the last one by Henry Ford.

This is 46 motivating and sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking quotes on money and wealth from the past few thousands of years. I hope you’ll find them as helpful as I have.

“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

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

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

“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.”
Warren Buffett

“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
Erich Fromm

“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
Jim Rohn

“The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.”
Unknown

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar

“It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.”
Billy Idol

“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

“I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.”
Robert Bosch

“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”
Kahlil Gibran

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Money is like muck—not good unless it be spread.”
Francis Bacon

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

“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
Ben Franklin

“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

“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”
Gandhi

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

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

“When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.”
Artemus Ward

“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.”
Unknown

“Know what you own, and know why you own it.”
Peter Lynch

“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

“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.”
James W. Frick

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
Oscar Wilde

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
Jim Rohn

“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

“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

The world is full of people looking for quick money and wealth, especially in this age of information technology and instant gratification. There is nothing particularly wrong with that, but too often we miss the mark in our quest for wealth and material possessions and fall short of what we truly desire in life. Here are powerful quotes and words of wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers and achievers in history that will inspire your heart and mind for true wealth and happiness in life.