Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in a financial rut? That no matter how hard you work, you’ll never be able to achieve true financial freedom?
If so, don’t despair! You’re not alone. In fact, some of the most successful entrepreneurs have felt the same way at one point or another.
But they didn’t let their circumstances stop them from achieving their dreams. And neither should you.
To help inspire you on your journey to financial freedom, here are 54 quotes about making money from some of the world’s most accomplished people. Enjoy!
Financial Freedom Quotes About Hard Work
It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
Mark Cuban
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson
Money grows on the tree of persistence.
Japanese Proverb
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.
Brian Tracy
Financial Freedom Quotes About Debt & Fear
Debt is normal. Be weird.
Dave Ramsey
Financial freedom is freedom from fear.
Robert Kiyosaki
Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.
Nathan W. Morris
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman
Financial Freedom Quotes About Desire
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Know what you own, and know why you own it.
Suze Orman
Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people that they don’t like.
Will Rogers
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
Woodrow Wilson
Financial Freedom Quotes About Spending Habits
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Zig Ziglar
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
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
Cicero
Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson
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
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.
Will Rogers
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
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge
More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.
Roger Babson
If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
Brigham Young
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
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Benjamin Franklin
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
Joe Moore
The secret to creating lasting financial change is to decide to pay yourself first and then make it automatic.
David Bach
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca
Financial Freedom Quotes About Investing
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.
Albert Einstein
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
Warren Buffett
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
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
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
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
Robert G. Allen
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
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
Financial Freedom Quotes About Creating Assets
Rich don’t work for money. They work for assets.
Robert Kiyosaki
Most people find a disorienting mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
James A. Baldwin
I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Robert Bosch
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
Wilson Mizner
Financial Freedom Quotes About Passive Income
You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.
T. Harv Eker
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
Warren Buffet
Financial Freedom Quotes About Risk-Taking
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
Freedom is never free. It requires risk taking.
Nassim Taleb
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General Financial Freedom Quotes
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
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese Proverb
Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it.
Frank A. Clark
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.
Dave Ramsey
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum
Financial Freedom Quotes About Happiness
Happiness comes from many sources, but none of these sources involve car or purse upgrades. No matter what the herd or the TV set tells you, this is the truth.
Mr. Money Mustache
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
A Final Word
It’s time to take your finances into your own hands and be the master of your destiny. These quotes about financial freedom are sure to motivate you to achieve success in business and beyond.
Which is your favorite quote about financial freedom? Do you have another you’d add to the collection? Share it in the comments below, and let us know how you plan on achieving financial freedom this year.
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