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
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do. ”
-Albert Einstein
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. 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
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
pound 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
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. Innovation distinguishes between a
leader and a follower. –Steve Jobs
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. About 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 the 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
51. 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
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 present. –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. You can’t connect the dots looking
forward; you can only connect them
looking backwards. So you have to trust
that the dots will somehow connect in
your future. You have to trust in
something – your gut, destiny, life,
karma, whatever. This approach has
never let me down, and it has made all
the difference in my life. –Steve Jobs
71. Let no feeling of discouragement prey
upon you, and in the end you are sure to
succeed. –Abraham Lincoln
72. Screw it, Let’s do it! –Richard Branson
73. If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to
meet it! –Jonathan Winters
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
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 rise early,
work late and strike oil. –JP Getty
100. The best thing money can buy is
financial freedom. –Me
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