100+ inspirational financial quotes on building wealth [Path to Riches]

When things get tough, and it all seems there is no way out of a tough situation, inspirational quotes uplift your spirit and can be a guiding light.

Quotes are summaries of an individual’s thoughts on a subject. They have the power to awaken hope, faith, and inner strength.

There is power in words, and when they are repeated enough, they can have an unimaginable effect on our psychology. That is why it is important to feed the mind with inspirational financial quotes if you want to build wealth.

Many wealthy people have discovered the effectiveness of inspirational quotes and usually occasionally read different books to gain fresh perspectives.

So that you do not need to read a lot of books or interviews before gaining first-hand insight into the thought of experts and wealthy people about how to build wealth, below are some financial quotes on building wealth:

Financial quotes by Warren Buffet on building wealth

1. “Rule No. 1 is never lose money. Rule No. 2 is never forget Rule No.”
2. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
3. “If you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”
4. “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.”
5. “The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.”
6. “Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.”
7. “Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”
8. “The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”
9. “Never depend on a single income. Make an investment to create a second source.”
10. “I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”
11. “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
12. “Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.”
13. “Don’t pass up something that’s attractive today because you think you will find something better tomorrow.”
14. “When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees, it will usually be the managers who reap outsized profits, not the clients.”
15. “Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”

Bill Gates’s money quotes

1. “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world … if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
2. “It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
3. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
4. “Life is not fair; get used to it.”
5. “Patience is a key element of success.”
6. “If you are born poor, it’s not your fault, but if you die poor, it is your mistake.”

Aliko Dangote’s money quotes

1. “The real thing about wealth, what will make you enjoy it and be happy that yes you are rich, is how many lives you can touch while you are alive.”
2. “Manufacture, don’t just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.”
3. “I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It’s hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don’t rest until I achieve something.”
4. “Endeavour to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don’t go to bed until you have achieved something productive.”
5. “If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive.”
6. “Don’t kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.”
7. “Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home.”
8. “In the journey to success, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”
9. “In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.”
10. “I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.”
11. “To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.”
12. “You could easily tell that hard work and perseverance go hand in hand with patience. We often hear people say patience is worth it, yet we don’t practice it. I did and look how well it worked out for me.”
13. “The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.”
14. “I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work.”
15. “To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand ‘Dangote,’ which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities.”
16. “Invest now, before it’s too late. The train is about to leave the station.”
17. “My grandfather once told me; the soul of business is not making money but making people happy.”
18. I’m not in it for the money. No, no. I like to run a business that’s successful… I’m a very creative person.”

More inspirational financial money quotes

1. Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like. –Will Rogers
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. 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
11. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. –Thomas Edison
12. 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
13. 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
14. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. –Yogi Berra
15. 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
16. 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
17. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. –Jim Rohn
18. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. –Ayn Rand
19. 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
20. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. –Seneca
21. It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages. –Henry Ford
22. He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. –Eleanor Roosevelt
23. 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
24. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. –Norman Vincent Peale
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. –George Bernard Shaw
30. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. –Robert G. Allen
31. I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. –Malcolm Forbes
32. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. –Steve Jobs
33. The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. –Anonymous
34. Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. –P.T. Barnum
35. Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more. –Jack Benny
36. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. –Henry David Thoreau
37. The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. –Ben Graham
38. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. –Thomas Jefferson
39. You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey
40. 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
41. Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self. –Nathan W. Morris
42. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. –Zig Ziglar
43. Never spend your money before you have it. –Thomas Jefferson
44. The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. –Phillip Fisher
45. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. –Benjamin Franklin
46. 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
47. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. –Thomas A. Edison
48. 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
49. 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
50. 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
51. Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” –Joe Biden
52. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. –Vicki Robin
53. 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
54. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. –Winston Churchill
55. 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
56. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. –Albert Einstein
57. 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
58. It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important. –Zig Ziglar
59. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. –David Brinkley
60. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. –Roger Babson
61. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. –John Wayne
62. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. –Mahatma Gandhi
63. 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
64. It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. –J. K Rowling
65. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. –Bruce Lee
66. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. –Dale Carnegie
67. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
68. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. –Robert Kiyosaki
69. 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
70. Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. –Abraham Lincoln
71. Screw it, Let’s do it! –Richard Branson
72. If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it! –Jonathan Winters
73. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
74. A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. –Henry Kravis
75. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. –Donald Trump
76. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. –Vidal Sassoon
77. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill
78. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. –Benjamin Franklin
79. If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. –Chris Guillebeau
80. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
81. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. –Lao Tzu
82. 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
83. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
84. The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. –Warren Buffett
85. I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. –George Soros
86. 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
87. 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
88. When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? –Rene Rivkin
89. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks. –John Bogle
90. My old father used to have a saying:  If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. –Abraham Lincoln
91. It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. –Eleanor Roosevelt
92. The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’ –Sir John Templeton
93. I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. –Pablo Picasso
94. Fortune sides with him who dares. –Virgil
95. Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. –Arthur Schopenhauer
96. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. –Edmund Burke
97. No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. –Plato
98. My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. –JP Getty