Best Financial Literacy Quotes

Financial literacy is a crucial skill that empowers individuals to make informed financial decisions, achieve their financial goals, and secure their future.

To inspire and motivate you on your journey to financial literacy, here are some thought-provoking quotes about money and financial wisdom.

“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.” – Richard M. DeVos
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“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
“Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” – P.T. Barnum
“The lack of money is the root of all evil.” – Mark Twain
“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” – Jonathan Swift
“Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go over budget.” – Leslie Tayne
“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” – Philip Fisher
“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.” – Kahlil Gibran
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” – Voltaire
“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.” – Will Rogers
“Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future.” – Aristotle
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” – Zig Ziglar
“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.” – Marlene Dietrich
“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela
“Never spend your money before you have it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.” – P.T Barnum
“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.” – Edith Wharton
“Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.” – Warren Buffett
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau
“It’s not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.” – Francis Bacon
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.” – Haruki Murakami
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.” – Peter Diamandis
“You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” – Dave Ramsey
“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.” – Barack Obama
“Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.” – Nathan W. Morris
“Money is a powerful force. Use it wisely.” – Joe Biden
“The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms.” – Chris Brogan
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
“It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it’s your spending habits.” – Charles A. Jaffe
“Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar
“The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” – Proverb
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” – Jim Rohn
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” – Margaret Bonnano
“You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.” – Tennessee Williams
“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.” – Bob Marley
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” – Ronald Reagan
“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.” – J. Paul Getty
“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” – Pablo Picasso
“When I had money everyone called me brother.” – Polish proverb
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” – Erich Fromm
“Money moves from those who do not manage it to those who do.” – Dave Ramsey

“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate.” – William A. Ward
“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
“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.” – Warren Buffett
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau
“If you want to feel rich, just count all the gifts you have that money can’t buy.” – Proverb
“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” – Henry Ford
“Money is good for bribing yourself through the bad habits of life.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.” – Unknown
“He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Money is the worst discovery of human life. But it is the most trusted material to test human nature.” – Vishnu Purana
“Rich people believe ‘I create my life.’ Poor people believe ‘Life happens to me‘.” – T. Harv Eker
“Money is a tool. Used properly it makes something beautiful; used wrong, it makes a mess!” – Bradley Vinson
“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” – Joe Biden
“I am not impressed by money, social status, or job title. I am impressed by the way someone treats other human beings.” – Unknown
“Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” – Jackie Mason
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
“When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don’t know CAN hurt you.” – Sandra S. Simmons
“To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.” – David Bailey
“Money often costs too much, and the desire for it spoils its true usefulness.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give.” – Adam Neumann
“The best thing money can buy is financial freedom.” – Rob Berger
“When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands.” – Idowu Koyenikan
“The more you learn, the more you earn. Wealth is a product of capacity.” – Warren Buffett