134 Money Quotes and Sayings

In this post, you will find amazing money quotes and sayings.

Short Money Quotes and Sayings

“Money can’t buy happiness but it can ease the pain.” —Jim Pallas

“He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.” —Unknown

“Never spend your money before you have earned it.” —Thomas Jefferson

“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.” —Plato

“Money can’t buy life.” —Bob Marley

“Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.” —Nathan W. Morris

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

“I cannot afford to waste my time making money.” —Jean Louis Agassiz

“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.” —Ernest Hemingway

“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” —Nelson Mandella

“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” —Benjamin Franklin

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” —Benjamin Franklin

“Do what you love and the money will follow.” —Marsha Sinetar

“Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.” —Benjamin Franklin

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” —Mohandas Gandhi

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.” —Mark Twain

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

“Time is money.” —Benjamin Franklin

“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” —Pablo Picasso

“I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.” —Judy Garland

“The best thing money can buy is financial freedom.” —Rob Berger

“You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.” —Tennesse Williams

“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” —P.T. Barnum

“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” —Margaret Walker

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” —Epictetus

“Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise.” —Benjamin Franklin

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” —George Burns

“Money is the wise man’s religion.” —Euripides

“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.” —Mae West

“The more you learn, the more you earn.” —Frank Clark

“No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.” —H. Jackson Brown

“Money alone sets all the world in motion.” —Pubilius Syrus

“Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.” —Spike Milligan

“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” —Jonathan Swift

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

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” —Voltaire

“Money often costs too much.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.” —Barack Obama

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

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” —Woody Allen

“You either make sense or you make money.” —Buckminster Fuller

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” —Henry Ford

“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.” —John D. Rockefeller

“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.” —J. Paul Getty

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin

“To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.” —David Bailey

“For I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love.” —The Beatles

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

“Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.” —Henry Fielding

“Never spend your money before you have earned it.” —Thomas Jefferson

“Wealth is largely the result of habit.” —John Jacob Astor

“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.” —W. C. Fields

“Love is like money, hard to find easy to lose.” —Ally Mbululo

“When I had money everyone called me brother.” —Polish proverb

“Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” —Jim Rohn

“Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.” —George Herbert

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

“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” —Henny Youngman

“Use money and love people. Don’t love money and use people.” —Joseph Prince

“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.” —Aphra Behn

“All money is a matter of belief.” —Adam Smith

“Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” —John Wooden

“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” —Henny Youngman

“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.” —Ken Hakuta

“Family is the most important thing in the world.” —Princess Diana

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

“All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health.” —Reba McEntire

“The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” —Proverb

“The more of it one has, the more one wants.” —Benjamin Franklin

“To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.” —David Bailey

“Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.” —Brian Tracy

Money Quotes and Sayings

“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 problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.” —Robert Anson Heinlei

“A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.” —Henry David Thoreau

“You only have so many hours in a day, let others make the money for you.” —Nick Haase

“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

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” —Chinese Proverb

“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” —Ronald Reagan

“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.” —Proverb

“A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.” —Joe Moore

“Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.” —Francis Bacon

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” —Miguel de Cervantes

“The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing.” —Carrie Wilkerson

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.” —Buddha

“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.” —Johnny Cash

“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.” —Kin Hubbard

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” —Dorothy Parker

“Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it.” —Frank A. Clark

“Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.” —Natasha Munson

“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.” —Charles Bukowski

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” —Will Smith

“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” —Helen Gurley Brown

“A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.” —Henry David Thoreau

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill

“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.” —Will Rogers

“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.” —Kinky Friedman

“Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don’t generate a lot of interest.” —Unknown

“Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.” —William Somerset

“A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.” —William Feather

“You don’t need money or power or any other advantage to get by in this world; love is all you need.” —Melchor Lim

“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

“What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.” —Suze Orman

“Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn’t expect to be paid back.” —Unknown

“The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” —Peter Lynch

“They say money doesn’t bring happiness, but everyone still wants to prove it for themselves.” —Unknown

“A treasure is to be valued for its own sake and not for what it will buy.” —Graham Greene

“Money may not buy love, but fighting about it will bankrupt your relationship.” —Michelle Singletary

“Sometimes it’s better to spend one hour thinking about money than to spend a week working for it.” —André Kostolany

“Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.” —P.T. Barnum

“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.” —Benjamin Franklin

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either.” —Robert Graves

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.” —Henry David Thoreau

“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” —Aristotle Onassis

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

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

“A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.” —Joe Moore

“All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.” —Curtis Carlson

“A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.” —Michael Douglas

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffett

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

“Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.” —Michael Leboeuf

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” —Norman Vincent Peale

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” —Bob Hope

“People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.” —Bob Nelson

“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 have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” —Jackie Mason

“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” —Frank Hubbard

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

“People who say that money can’t buy happiness just don’t know where to shop.” —Kathy Lette

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” —George Carlin

“True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love.” —Honore de Balzac

Top Ten Money Quotes and Sayings

Here you will find top ten money quotes and sayings selected by our team.

1. “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
2. “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” —Mark Twain
3. “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
4. “Never spend your money before you have earned it.” —Thomas Jefferson
5. “Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.” —Francis Bacon
6. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” —Benjamin Franklin
7. “There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.” —Charles Bukowski
8. “Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.” —Aphra Behn
9. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” —Norman Vincent Peale
10. “If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” —Aristotle Onassis