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15 Great Quotes About Money


The best quotes are words to live by. Words to live by are quotes that are memorable, yes, but also convey a truth that will affect how I think, live, and make decisions going forward. It is the life-affecting truth that makes a quote stick.


I hope you will find at least one or two of these quotes to be words to live by.


1. "You can't understand money if you don't understand who you are, and money is one of the principal ways you demonstrate who you think you are." – Paul David Tripp


2. “Our gifts are not to be measured by the amount we contribute, but by the surplus kept in our own hand.” – Charles Spurgeon


3. “Don’t just make money, make a difference." – Grant Cardone


4. “Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination.” – Simon Sinek


5. “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” –Albert Einstein


6. “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


7. “Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” ― William Penn


8. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” — Anne Frank


9. “Wealth is largely the result of habit.” — John Jacob Astor


10. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." — Steve Jobs


11. “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” —Edmund Burke


12. “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”— Amy Carmichael


13. “All the money you made will never buy back your soul.” – Bob Dylan


14. “A man in debt is so far a slave.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson


15. "It is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy for the lack of it." – George Macdonald

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