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Noteworthy Financial Quotes

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. Robert G. Allen
  • Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale
  • The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. Ben Graham
  • Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. Nathan W. Morris
  • Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. Zig Ziglar
  • Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson
  • The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. Phillip Fisher
  • A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley
  • Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
  • If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! Jonathan Winters
  • The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vidal Sassoon
  • If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. Chris Guillebeau
  • The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. Warren Buffett
  • When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? Rene Rivkin
  • If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks. John Bogle
  • The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ Sir John Templeton
  • Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like. Will Rogers
  • A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. Jonathan Swift
  • Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epictetus
  • Money often costs too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. David Feherty
  • Frugality includes all the other virtues. Cicero
  • An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
  • Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn
  • Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Ayn Rand
  • 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
  • It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca
  • He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw
  • I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. Malcolm Forbes
  • Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
  • Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. P.T. Barnum
  • I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson
  • You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. Dave Ramsey
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” Joe Biden
  • If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. Vicki Robin
  • We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
  • 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
  • Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein
  • 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
  • Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie
  • The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
  • Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. Robert Kiyosaki
  • People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar
  • A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. Henry Kravis
  • Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
  • Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu
  • Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
  • It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Arthur Schopenhauer
  • If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke
  • No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. Plato
  • My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. JP Getty
  • 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
  • A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. Yogi Berra
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison