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Everyone talks about money -- some because they don’t have enough, some wish to make more, and some are simply obsessed with it. It has always been this way, but nowadays, making money seems to be the main goal on everyone’s 'to do' list.We’ve never had so many options when it comes to products, technology and services, and salesmen constantly try to convince us that we need them all to live a happier and easier life. But do we?In the past, people didn’t have so much to choose from. Now, we want the blender with six functions that we don’t even use. We want the expensive clothes that we don’t even like, but they are “trendy” so we still buy them to impress others around us.In the pursuit of getting all the things we want, but don’t need, we lose precious time, relationships, and ultimately ourselves. Of course, money is a means to an end. We need it for comfort, education, medical procedures and so on, but we should always remember that there’s so much to this life.Here are 150 money quotes that will change your perspective on making money:Money motivation quotesAs mentioned above, we need money -- maybe for some of the things we’ve never had, maybe for basic necessities. Whatever our goal may be, money will be part of our lives, like it or not. We should strive for a better today for ourselves and our families, just as long we don’t forget that we’re on this Earth to make each minute count, and money isn’t everything.If you need a few words to get you going even when you don’t feel like it, check out our list of money motivation quotes:Rich people believe ‘I create my life’. Poor people believe ‘Life happens to me’. T. HARV EKERDon’t just make money, make a difference. GRANT CARDONEMoney moves from those who do not manage it to those who do. DAVE RAMSEYEarly to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (more Benjamin Franklin quotes)Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. RONALD REAGAN (more Ronald Reagan quotes)Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will. NELSON MANDELARich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus on obstacles. T. HARV EKERMoney has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it. KEVIN O’LEARYIt’s not about the money. It’s about the life I want to live. UNKNOWNMake your goal more than money. Make it about helping people and creating a better future. MAXIME LAGACÉTo fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. BETTE DAVISThe goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms. CHRIS BROGANYou have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you’ve achieved success, you’re free to do whatever you like. KEVIN O’LEARYMy formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. J. PAUL GETTYIt is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. OSCAR WILDEFortune sides with him who dares. VIRGILOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. THOMAS EDISONI’m hard working, frugal, steadfast, willing to learn and to build a credible name. LI KA SHINGWhat matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like. KEVIN O’LEARYKeep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target. T. HARV EKERWhere the determination is, the way can be found. GEORGE S. CLASONI always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. WARREN BUFFETTSaving money quotesSaving money should not be an option, it should be a rule. Regardless of how big or small your income is, you should make an effort in putting al least 10% away into your savings account. The unpredictable is part of our lives and you can’t never know when or for what you’ll need a certain amount of money. It is always better to have some at hand rather than searching for people who would loan you the amount you need.Save money for a brighter future, save for the sake of saving, or save for a beautiful holiday with your dear ones. Stop spending money on things you don’t really need, you’ll thank us later. Check out best saving money quotes.Stop buying things you don’t need, to impress people you don’t even like. SUZE ORMANI make myself rich by making my wants few. HENRY DAVID THOREAU (more Henry David Thoreau quotes)That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. HENRY DAVID THOREAUMoney is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end. BOB MARLEYDon’t let making a living prevent you from making a life. JOHN WOODENIt is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. SENECAWe buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like. TYLER DURDEN (FIGHT CLUB)I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love. THE BEATLESMoney may be spent but never squandered.LI KA SHINGIf you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that. CHARLIE MUNGERThe rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left. JIM ROHNIt’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 T. KIYOSAKINever spend your money before you have it.THOMAS JEFFERSONMaking money quotesProbably, everyone you know is concerned about how to make more money. There is nothing wrong with that. But as a smart person you know you need to set up some goals first. And you need a certain mindset if you want to achieve your goals -- you need to think like a rich man, even if you have $20 in your pocket. How to change your mindset? Maybe some of the following making money quotes will teach you a thing or two about how to dream big. The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money. WARREN BUFFETT (more Warren Buffett quotes)If you make meaning, you’ll make money. GUY KAWASAKITrade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first. NAVAL RAVIKANTIf it’s only about money we are hopeless. If it’s about people we are hopeful. MAXIME LAGACÉFormal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune. JIM ROHNThe best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people. PETER DIAMANDISFocusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. BARACK OBAMAWe don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. WALT DISNEYMoney is not the only answer, but it makes a difference. BARACK OBAMAIf you can get paid for doing what you love, every paycheck is a bonus. OPRAH WINFREYSimply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something. MARK ZUCKERBERGWe have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil. LARRY PAGECapital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. MAHATMA GANDHIIf you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money. WARREN BUFFETTAnyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. OSCAR WILDEThe funny thing is, the people who work really hard, they work really hard so they can sit on their ass – they just want to sit on their ass in nicer surroundings. KARL PILKINGTONI find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it. THOMAS A. EDISONThere is gold everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it. ROBERT T. KIYOSAKILike Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris – I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it. CHARLIE MUNGERIf your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you’ll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you’ll end up mighty comfortable. T. HARV EKERRich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them. T. HARV EKERRich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time. T. HARV EKEROpportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. GEORGE S. CLASONIf you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. WARREN BUFFETTI don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful. MARILYN MONROEIf you don’t get serious about your money you will never have serious money. GRANT CARDONEIt’s simple arithmetic: ‘Your income can grow only to the extent you do’. T. HARV EKERThe more money you make the more problems you get. CHRISTOPHER GEORGE LATORE WALLACE (NOTORIOUS B.I.G.)Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need. WILL ROGERSShort money quotesIn only a few words, the following short money quotes will definitely impress you. Most of them are from famous people who already know what it’s like to afford everything they want. Is money everything? Find out from our list of short money quotes that can also make great captions for your social media posts.The more you learn, the more you earn. WARREN BUFFETTEarn with your mind, not your time. NAVAL RAVIKANTThere are people who have money and people who are rich. COCO CHANELMoney is a great servant but a bad master. FRANCIS BACONAll the money you made will never buy back your soul. BOB DYLAN (more Bob Dylan quotes)When I had money everyone called me brother. POLISH PROVERBNot he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ERICH FROMMWhoever loves money will never have enough. ECCLESIASTES 5:10When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. VOLTAIREBe your money’s master, not its slave. PUBLILIUS SYRUSMoney doesn’t buy happiness – it buys freedom. NAVAL RAVIKANTIt does not take money to make money. ROBERT T. KIYOSAKIAll money is a matter of belief. ADAM SMITHA man in debt is so far a slave. RALPH WALDO EMERSONDon’t go broke trying to go rich. UnknownUNKNOWNMoney doesn’t change people. It unmasks them. UNKNOWNMoney grows on the tree of persistence. JAPANESE PROVERBIf money’s where you find happiness, you’ll always be poor. NFWords are the money of fools. THOMAS HOBBESMoney is power.UNKOWNMoney is like fire.P.T. BarnumWealth quotesMost people that have struggled in life think that money would solve all their problems. Most people that have enough money know that true wealth means more than just having loads of money. True wealth is also about having healthy relationships and people you can rely on because you know… at the end of the day, some things can’t be bought.There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money. ALAN WATTSPossession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever. BOB MARLEY (more Bob Marley quotes)The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. JIM CARREYSpend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy. HARUKI MURAKAMIThe rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society. MAHATMA GANDHIInvest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far. WARREN BUFFETTThe ultimate purpose of money is so that you do not have to be in a specific place at a specific time doing anything you don’t want to do. NAVAL RAVIKANTSeek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy. NAVAL RAVIKANTYou have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. THOMAS WOLFEWealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options. CHRIS ROCKMy favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. STEVE JOBSThere is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. SAM WALTONSuccess is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. JOHNNY CASHRich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich. T. HARV EKERRich people think big. Poor people think small. T. HARV EKERSome people are so poor, all they have is money. UNKNOWNMoney is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. ALAN WATTSA rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. W. C. FIELDSThe fools in life want things fast and easy — money, success, attention. ROBERT GREENERich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose. T. HARV EKERSomeone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. WARREN BUFFETTRich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. ZIG ZIGLARWomen and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great. BENJAMIN FRANKLINWe make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we giveWINSTON CHURCHILLAn investment in knowledge pays the best interestBENJAMIN FRANKLINFunny money quotesIn the right context, jokes about money can be hilarious. Whether you’ve never had it and choose to share some of those experiences, or maybe you have just about enough and still find something funny to say about it. If your financial status is not at its best yet, don’t get offended when a rich person tells a joke. Remember, it’s all in the context.I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. PABLO PICASSOMoney is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J. PAUL GETTYMoney is the best deodorant. ELIZABETH TAYLORLottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. AMBROSE BIERCEMoney, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. ANTON CHEKHOVI've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it. DOROTHY PARKERDoes running out of money count as exercise? UNKNOWNIt’s amazing how fast later comes when you buy now. MILTON BERLEMost people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. GEORGE CARLIN (more George Carlin quotes)A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. BOB HOPEMen are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don’t generate a lot of interest. UNKNOWNTaking drugs and thinking that you are happy is like taking a loan and thinking you have money. THIBAUTThere’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. ROBERT GRAVESPeople say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. JOAN RIVERSIf you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. DOROTHY PARKERInflation is taxation without legislation. MILTON FRIEDMANMoney and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have. WILL ROGERSThe quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket. WILL ROGERSIf you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. EARL WILSONGiving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O’ROURKEMoney can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. KINKY FRIEDMANWhoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping. GERTRUDE STEINI put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. GEORGE CARLINMoney affirmationsRegardless of your current financial status, try to picture a future where you have everything you need: the house of your dreams, enough savings or a business that brings you the right amount of satisfaction, moneywise. It’s not impossible! You can always dream big then take the right steps that will lead you to so many accomplishments.The following money affirmations will help you set and focus on goals that you can later turn into actionable financial goals.I experience wealth as a key part of my life. UNKNOWNI am capable of overcoming any money-obstacles that stand in my way.UNKNOWNI can conquer my money goals.UNKNOWNToday I commit to living my financial dreams.UNKNOWNI want more money. And that's okay.UNKNOWNIt's easy and natural for me to be prosperous and successful.UNKNOWNMy life is filled with health and wealth.UNKNOWNAbundance is coming, I deserve and accept it.UNKNOWNI accept and receive unexpected prosperity.UNKNOWNI have more than enough money.UNKNOWNI deserve to make more money.UNKNOWNI am always discovering new sources of income.UNKNOWNMoney comes my way in both expected and unexpected ways.UNKNOWNI am open to receiving all wealth life brings to me.UNKNOWNI’m not poor, I'm just low wealth right now. That is changing.UNKNOWNI’m getting out of my own way when it comes to money.UNKNOWN