The world revolves around money and so does the people living in it. Every day 24/7, we seem to think and work to earn and spend the cash.
In the list of quotes below, some of these famous people perceived money as vain, while the others revealed how to make it and keep it coming. One of world’s richest man Warren Buffett gave a tip on when to invest and he said, ” You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”
20 Money Quotes By Famous People
1. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. – Jonathan Swift
2. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. – Epictetus
3. Money often costs too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like. – Will Rogers
5. Every day 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
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11. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result in 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 the money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this. – Dave Ramsey