It is so easy to find money quotes and feel overwhelmed by them. Everyone seems to be talking about money. Although we are hearing that more people have less money than ever before. Of course there is also the other side that some people appear to have more money than ever before.
This has always been the case throughout our history. There is a split between those who have a lot of money and those who struggle to get or keep any money at all.
Stress around making it and wondering which bill to pay first and which one can be put off a little bit longer is part of everyday life for so many people.
They don’t even have time to wonder about things. They don’t have money problems, they have a problem about the lack of money.
Laughter is said to be the best medicine and sometimes it works. I have collected some quotes about money to distract you from the everyday things. Some quotes may motivate or inspire you and some may make you mad at the arrogance of the person who said it.
There are also some funny quotes to lighten the mood and ones that can be saved and remembered when you need that boost in your day.
Find the ones that make you smile and the ones that make you think.
Motivational quotes about money
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. – P.T. Barnum
It’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have plenty of it. – Ransom Riggs
Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw
Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it. – Frank A. Clark
A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went. – Dave Ramsey
Don’t go broke trying to look rich.
I’d rather lose my own money than someone else’s. – Dean Kamen
Short money quotes
Don’t just make money, make a difference. – Grant Cardone
Money: power at its most liquid. – Mason Cooley
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. – Benjamin Franklin
Money often costs too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people who have money and people who are rich. – Coco Chanel
Money is like muck—not good unless it be spread. – Francis Bacon
Money equals freedom. – Kevin O’Leary
Earn with your mind, not your time. – Naval Ravikant
Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. – Ayn Rand
It’s not about the money. It’s about the life I want to live. – unknown
Money can’t buy life.- Bob Marley
Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin
Money isn’t everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen. – Rita Davenport
The more you learn, the more you earn. – Warren Buffett
Inspirational quotes
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy. – Haruki Murakami
When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money. – Artemus Ward
Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. – Daniel Kahneman
It’s all about the money. – Joe Jackson
Money doesn’t change people. It unmasks them. – unknown
All the money you made will never buy back your soul. – Bob Dylan
If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently. – Placido Domingo
Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. – Ronald Reagan
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 and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. – Will Smith
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
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. – Agatha Christie
Motivational make money quotes
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. – Malcolm Forbes
To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep. – David Bailey
The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms. – Chris Brogan
Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.- Nelson Mandela
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 let making a living prevent you from making a life. – John Wooden
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
Where the determination is, the way can be found. – George S. Clason
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. – Everett Dirksen
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. – Pablo Picasso
Money management quotes
Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it. – Frank A. Clark
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
The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. – T.T. Munger
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
Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. – Jack Benny
Stop buying things you don’t need, to impress people you don’t even like. – Suze Orman
Money moves from those who do not manage it to those who do. – Dave Ramsey
Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. – Françoise Sagan
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. – Simone Weil
Saving money quotes
I make myself rich by making my wants few. – Henry David Thoreau
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. – Seneca
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. – Epictetus
The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left. – Jim Rohn
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 T. Kiyosaki
Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
The more money you make the more problems you get. – Christopher G. Wallace
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need. – Will Rogers
Quotes to make you smile
Money is the best deodorant – Elizabeth Taylor
I’ve never been a millionaire but I’d know I’d be just darling at it. – Dorothy Parker
Money can’t buy me happiness, but it can buy me ice cream, and that is pretty close.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. – Bob Hope
I’m not rich, I’m just financially challenged.
I’m not cheap, I’m just on a budget.
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping. – Getrude Stein
Money isn’t everything, but it sure does come in handy when you’re at the grocery store.
If money doesn’t grow on trees, then why do banks have branches. – Anon
I learned in school that money isn’t everything. It’s happiness that counts. So momma sent me to a different school. – Zsa Zsa Gabor
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. – Bernard Baruch
I wish my bank account refilled as quickly as my laundry basket does. – Anon
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. – Albert Einstein
I’m stuck between “I need to save money” and “ you only live once.” – Anon
Cash. Rules. Everything. Around. Me. – Wu-Tang Clan
I hate maths.. But I love counting money. – Anon