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Financial wisdom financial advice quotes 2023

1. “Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” — Margaret Bonanno
2. “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
3. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” ― Colin Powell
4. “Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.” ― Natasha Munson
5. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” ― Walt Disney
6. “A formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ― Jim Rohn
7. “Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” ― Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter)
8. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” ― Steve Jobs
9. “There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ― Nelson Mandela
10. “Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” ― William Penn
11. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” ― Harry Golden
12. “Don’t live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.” ― Germany Kent
13. “To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” ― Kofi Annan
14. “Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.” ― Robert Kiyosaki
15. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” ― Plato
16. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” ― Tony Robbins
17. “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” ― Jesse Owens
18. “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ― Gloria Steinem
19. “If you want to be financially free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.” — Robert Kiyosaki
20. “It’s not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” ― Senec
22. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
23. “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” ― Brian Tracy
24. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.” ― Mark Twain
25. “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” ― Pablo Picasso
26. “It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.” ― Jackie Joyner-Kersee
27. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” ― George Patton
28. “Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage.” —Thomas J. Stanley
29. “Be bold enough to use your voice, brave enough to listen to your heart, and strong enough to live the life you have always imagined.” ― Anonymous
30. “Knowledge is power: you hear it all the time but knowledge is not power. It’s only potential power. It only becomes power when we apply it and use it. Somebody who reads a book and doesn’t apply it, they’re at no advantage over someone who’s illiterate. None of it works unless you work. We have to do our part. If knowing is half the battle, action is the second half of the battle.” ― Jim Kwik
31. “Belief in oneself and knowing who you are … that’s the foundation for everything great.” ― Jay-Z
32. “Spending money is much more difficult than making money.” ― Jack Ma
33. “To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.” ― David Bailey
34. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin
35. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” — Michelangelo
37. “Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack.” — Jack Bogle
38. “There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.” — Marlene Dietrich
39. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln
40. “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” — Edmund Burke
41. “Follow your passion; it will lead you to your purpose.” — Oprah Winfrey
42. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
43. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.” ― Oprah Winfrey
44. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” — Anne Frank
45. “Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.” — Carrie Fisher
46. “Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.” — Zig Ziglar
47. “Buy land. They’re not making it anymore.” — Mark Twain
48. “Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.” — Will Rogers
49. “Wealth is largely the result of habit.” — John Jacob Astor
50. “Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.” — Scott Alexander
51. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
52. “Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.” — Marshall Field
53. “Passion is the genesis of genius.” — Tony Robbins
54. “The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.” — Warren Buffett
55. “The major fortunes in America have been made in land.” — John D. Rockefeller
56. “Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.” — Felix Dennis
57. “If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
58. “Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.“ — Uri Geller
59. “We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.” ― Thomas A. Edison
60. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
61. “The key to making money is to stay invested.” ― Suze Orman
62. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” ― Iyanla Vanzant
63. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” ― Earl Nightingale
64. “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” ― Confucius
65. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ― Abraham Lincoln
66. “Making money from money is like aerobatics.” — Alisher Usmanov
67. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
68. “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” ― Andy Warhol
69. “Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it; it’s keeping it.” — John McAfee
70. “Nothing wrong with making money.” — Adam Levine
71. “I don’t believe in spending money lavishly, now that I’m making money.” — Ansel Elgort
72. “Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!” — Jam Master Jay
73. “I like the art of making money more than making money.” — Richard Rawlings
74. “The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.” — Humphrey Bogart
75. “Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.” — Bhavish Aggarwal
76. “Succeeding in business is not just about making money.” — Daniel Snyder
77. “One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money.” – Chamath Palihapitiya
78. “Just because you’re working does not mean you’re making money. That’s two very different things in show business.” — Billy Porter
79. “I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money.” — Jenny McCarthy
80. “I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn’t have to worry about making money.” — Jada Pinkett Smith
81. “Life started getting good when I started making money.” — Balthazar Getty
82. “Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.” — Anastasia Soare
83. “The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!” — Simon Cowell
84. “If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.” — Stephen A. Smith
85. “Business is about making money but it is also about having fun, so get your character across.” — Peter Jones
86. “Women need to be less squeamish about making money.” — Liz Tuss
87. “When you’re working and making money, that’s all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.” — Mekhi Phifer
88. “I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.” – Wayne Huizenga
89. “Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.” ― Karen Salmansohn
90. “To me I think leadership is activism. It’s giving back to your community, it’s investing in oneself, and you know women and children.” ― Black Thought
91. “Personal philanthropy must be separated from corporate philanthropy. Personal philanthropy is more about giving back to society, or giving forward, as it is now referred to.” ― Rohini Nilekani
92. “Giving back has definitely kept me grounded. Stepping outside of yourself to serve a group or community of people who are in need in some facet has a way of doing that. I don’t ever want to grow to a place where giving back becomes a foreign concept.” ― Karen Civil
93. “What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.” ― Adrian Grenier
94. “It’s not about giving back if you’re successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: it’s about your responsibility as an adult to help others.” ― Trisha Yearwood
95. “Giving back to the communities and institutions that helped us achieve success is a value we share and a privilege we embrace.” ― Dinesh Paliwal
96. “Giving back to those who are less fortunate shows great character and is the right thing to do.” ― Cynthia Bailey
97. “I’m committed to giving back to the community and will continue to do whatever I can to help people in need.” ― Al Horford
98. “There are plenty of easy things that you can do from the comfort of your own home to get you started on the path of giving back.” ― Jenna Morasca
99. “I was gifted at birth with this talent, and I’ve tried to honor it all my life. And I did – through hell and storms and tsunamis and earthquakes. I’ve been through too much not to know that giving back is everything.” ― Jenifer Lewis
100. “Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. it’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.” ― Mitch Albom
101. “Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving.” ― Warren Buffett
102. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” — Ayn Rand
103. “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” ― Peter F. Drucker
104. “A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.” ― Barack Obama
105. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” ― Benjamin Franklin
106. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ― Frederick Douglass
107. “No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”― Seneca
108. “Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.” ― Josh Billings
109. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ― Stephen Covey
110. “The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.” ― Orlando Bloom
111. “The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.” ― Jack Lew
112. “If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!” ― William Shatner
113. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”– Winston S. Churchill
114. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” ― Henry Ford
115. “You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.”—Steve Garvey
116. “Invest with the end in mind.” – Joe Saul-Sehy
117. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.”– Theodore Roosevelt
118. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”— Venus Williams
119. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.”-Seneca
120. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier
121. “How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” ― Robert G. Allen
122. “What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.” ― Muhammad Ali
123. “The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.” ― Sir John Templeton
124. “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
125. “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” ― Alan Lakein
126. Most people don’t plan to fail they fail to plan ⁓ John L Beckley
127. Never spend your money before you have it ⁓ Thomas Jefferson
128. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought ⁓ Napoleon Hills
129. Just because you can afford it doesn’t mean you should buy it ⁓ Suze Orman
130. It isn’t what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class ⁓ Sinclair Lewis
131. Think ahead, don’t let day to day operations drive out planning ⁓ Donald Rumsfeld
132. If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep becomes your downfall ⁓ Jim Rohn
133. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart ⁓ Jonathan Swift
134. Financial planning and discipline is key to one’s financial freedom ⁓ Kishorkumar Bapalli
135. Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it ⁓ Alan Lakein
136. Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes but no plans ⁓ Peter F. Drucker
137. Financial fitness is not a pipe dream or a state of mind it’s a reality if you are willing to pursue it and embrace it ⁓ Will Robinson
138. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act ⁓ Pablo Picasso
139. It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong ⁓ George Soros
140. If your goal is to become financially secure, you’ll likely attain it, but if your motive is to make money to spend money on a good life you’re never gonna make it ⁓Thomas J. Stanley
141. “The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” – Phillip Fisher
142. “You get recession, you get stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you are not ready and you will not do well in the markets.” – Peter Lynch
143. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
144. “I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett
145. “A thousand point gain or a thousand point decline does not alter the fact that we are saving for retirement or building up funds for education.” – Don Connelly
146. “People’s everyday routines will keep the stock market going.” – Don Connelly
147. “The stock market is the only market that when prices are slashed, clients run away!” – Don Connelly
148. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
149. . “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi
150. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
151. “They can conquer who believe they can.” – Virgil
152. “If you are passionate about people achieving their goals, they will choose you over the less passionate competition.” – Don Connelly
153. “Sometimes survival means leaving your comfort zone to make your own way.” – Don Connelly
154. “If you believe you can do it, go out there and do it, because that is the only way you are gonna get it!” – Harry Main
155. “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Alva Edison
156. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
157. “If your goal is to become financially secure, you’ll likely attain it… But if your motive is to make money to spend money on the good life… you’re never gonna make it.”
158. “Frugality isn’t about cutting your spending on everything. Frugality is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on – and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don’t love. The mind-set of frugal people is key to being rich.”
159. “Budgeting your money is the key to having enough.”
160. “If you understand how money can work for and against you, you can make better decisions. Financial literacy is not about wealth but about understanding money regardless of the amount. It’s about how you treat it and how you maximize opportunities.”
161. “A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”
162. “Debt erases freedom more surely than anything else.”
163. “It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it’s your spending habits.”
164. “Stop thinking about what your money can buy. Start thinking about what your money can earn.”
165. “Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.”
166. “Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.”
167. “There are many things money can buy, but the most valuable of all is freedom. Freedom to do what you want and to work for whom you respect.”
168. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
169. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
170. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals; adjust the action steps.”
171. “Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.”
172. “Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”
173. “Dammit, I saved too much for retirement! Said nobody, ever.”
174. “The key to money is to stay invested.” —Suze Orman, financial advisor
175. “If you make meaning, you’ll make money.” —Guy Kawasaki, marketing specialist
176. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” —Jim Rohn, entrepreneur
177. “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” —Andy Warhol, artist
178. “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, former U.S. President
179. “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, businessman
180. “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” —Edmund Burke, economist
181. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” —Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the U.S.
182. “Fortune sides with him who dares.” —Virgil, poet
183. “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1.” —Warren Buffett, businessman
184. “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, businessman
185. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” —Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the U.S.
186. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” —Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker
187. “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, writer
188. “To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.” —Berthold Auerbach, poet
189. “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, industrialist
190. “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, economist
191. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know and start charging for it.” —Kim Garst, marketing strategist
192. “The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.” —Ben Graham, economist
193. “Money grows on the tree of persistence.” —Japanese proverb
194. “Debt is one person’s liability, but another person’s asset.” —Paul Krugman, economist
195. “Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.” —Noam Chomsky, linguist
196. “Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.” —Ogden Nash, poet
197. “Interest on debts grows without rain.” —Yiddish Proverb
198. “Creditors have better memories than debtors.” —Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the U.S.
199. “Debt is normal. Be weird.” —Dave Ramsey, author
200. “It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.” —Aesop, Greek storyteller
201. “One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.” —Jesse Jones, entrepreneur
202. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” —Norman Vincent Peale, minister
203. “Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.” —Henry Wheeler Shaw, American humorist
204. “Financial fitness is not a pipe dream or a state of mind. It’s a reality if you are willing to pursue it and embrace it.” —Will Robinson, author
205. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” —Oprah Winfrey, talk show host
206. “You can’t always visualize the reward, but you can believe in the sacrifice if the vision is strong enough.” —Don Connelly, motivational speaker
207. “Do not focus on money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for the world. Money will follow you as a bi-product.” —Manoj Arora, author
208. “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” —Dave Ramsey, author
209. “Money won’t create success, freedom to make it will.” —Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
210. “You don’t need to raise money. You need to be smart and be focused.” —Mark Cuban, entrepreneur
211. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” —Ayn Rand, writer
212. “If you lose money you lose much, if you lose friends you lose more, if you lose faith you lose all.” —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the U.S.
213. “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, poet
214. “When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you’ll have financial freedom.” —Suze Orman, financial advisor