Top 170 Quotes on Building Real Wealth

1. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.
   Ayn Rand
2. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. –Jonathan Swift
3. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. –Epictetus
4. Money often costs too much. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Everyday 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
11. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result 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 money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this. –Dave Ramsey
21. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. –Seneca
22. It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. –Henry Ford
23. He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. –Eleanor Roosevelt
24. 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
25. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. –Norman Vincent Peale
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. –Henry Ford
30. If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. –George Bernard Shaw
31. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. –Robert G. Allen
32. I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. –Malcolm Forbes
33. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. –Steve Jobs
34. The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. –Anonymous
35. Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. –P.T. Barnum
36. Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. –Jack Benny
37. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. –Henry David Thoreau
38. The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. –Ben Graham
39. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. –Thomas Jefferson
40. You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey
41. 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
42. Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. –Nathan W. Morris
43. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. –Zig Ziglar
44. Never spend your money before you have it. —Thomas Jefferson
45. The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. –Phillip Fisher
46. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. –Benjamin Franklin
47. 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
48. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. –Thomas A. Edison
49. If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it. –Kim Garst
50. Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. –Steve Jobs
51. 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
52. Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” –Joe Biden
53. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. –Vicki Robin
54. 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
55. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. –Winston Churchill
56. Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. –Charles Caleb Colton
57. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. –Albert Einstein
58. It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. –Vince Lombardi
59. It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important. –Zig Ziglar
60. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. –David Brinkley
61. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. –Roger Babson
62. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. –John Wayne
63. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. –Mahatma Gandhi
64. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. –Mark Twain
65. It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. –J. K Rowling
66. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. –Bruce Lee
67. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. –Dale Carnegie
68. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
69. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. –Robert Kiyosaki
70. You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. –Steve Jobs
71. Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. –Abraham Lincoln
72. Screw it, Let’s do it! –Richard Branson
73. If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! –Jonathan Winters
74. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
75. A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. –Henry Kravis
76. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. –Donald Trump
77. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. –Vidal Sassoon
78. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill
79. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. –Benjamin Franklin
80. If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. –Chris Guillebeau
81. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
82. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. –Lao Tzu
83. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. –Oprah Winfrey
84. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
85. The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. –Warren Buffett
86. I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. –George Soros
87. Persist – don’t take no for an answer. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years. –David Rubenstein
88. If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor. –Charlie Munger
89. When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? –Rene Rivkin
90. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks. –John Bogle
91. My old father used to have a saying:  If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. –Abraham Lincoln
92. It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. –Eleanor Roosevelt
93. The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ –Sir John Templeton
94. I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. –Pablo Picasso
95. Fortune sides with him who dares. –Virgil
96. Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. –Arthur Schopenhauer
97. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. –Edmund Burke
98. No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. –Plato
99. My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. –JP Getty
100. The best thing money can buy is financial freedom. –Me

1. Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. – Brian Tracy

2. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
   – Henry David Thoreau

3. A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
   – Kahlil Gibran

4. Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
   – Stephen Swid

5. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
   – Henry Ward Beecher

6. People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.
   – Albert Hubbard

7. Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
   – George Clason

8. Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
   – Henry Ford

9. Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.
   – Noel Whittaker

10. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
    – Anne Bradstreet

11. The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things… it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future.
    – Steve Forbes

12. Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.
    – John Waters

13. Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. – Frank Herbert

14. 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

15. Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like. – Will Rogers

16. Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
    Arthur Schopenhauer

17. I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.
    – Rene Rivkin

18. Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.
    – Noel Whittaker

19. “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
    Seneca

20. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
    Ayn Rand

21. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.”
    Warren Buffett

22. “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
    Erich Fromm

23. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
    Jim Rohn

24. “The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.”
    Unknown

25. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
    Zig Ziglar

26. “It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.”
    Billy Idol

27. “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

28. “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

29. “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
    Henry David Thoreau

30. “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

31. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
    Henry David Thoreau

32. “Money is like muck—not good unless it be spread.”
    Francis Bacon

33. “It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.”
    Henry Ford

34. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
    Ben Franklin

35. “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

36. “Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”
    Gandhi

37. “I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.”
    Malcolm Forbes

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

39. “When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.”
    Artemus Ward

40. “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.”
    Unknown

41. “He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

42. “Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.”
    P.T Barnum

43. “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

44. “Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
    Thomas Jefferson

45. “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

46. “Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it.”
    Frank A. Clark

47. “When I had money everyone called me brother.”
    Polish proverb

48. “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

49. “Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
    Miguel de Cervantes

50. “I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth shall starve in the process.”
    Benjamin Harrison

51. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
    Norman Vincent Peale

52. “If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.”
    Simone Weil

53. “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
    Jonathan Swift

54. “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.”
    Benjamin Franklin

55. “Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.”
    Tim Ferriss

56. “A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.”
    Joe Moore

57. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.”
    Peter Lynch

58. “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

59. “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

60. “It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
    Oscar Wilde

61. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
    Jim Rohn

62. “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

63. “If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
    Henry Ford

164. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” —Epictetus

165. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” —Ayn Rand

166. “The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.” —Miguel de ervantes

167. “Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” —Indian Proverb

168. “One man to live in pleasure and wealth whilst all other weep and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.” —Thomas More

169. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill

170. “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” —unknown