Warren Buffett — “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.”

Benjamin Franklin — “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

Robert Kiyosaki — “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.”

Dave Ramsey — “Live like no one else now, so later you can live like no one else.”

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

Will Rogers — “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”

John D. Rockefeller — “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

Tony Robbins — “It’s not about money; it’s about the freedom that money brings.”

Suze Orman — “A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs.”

Henry David Thoreau — “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

Charlie Munger — “The first rule of compounding: Never interrupt it unnecessarily.”

Thomas J. Stanley — “Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.”

Mark Cuban — “It doesn’t matter how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.”

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

Napoleon Hill — “Money without brains is always dangerous.”

Dave Ramsey — “A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”

J.P. Morgan — “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

George S. Clason — “Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.”

Marie Forleo — “Clarity comes from action, not thought.”

John Bogle — “Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!”

Howard Marks — “The biggest investing errors come not from factors that are informational or analytical, but from those that are psychological.”

Adam Smith — “Money is a tool, not a goal.”

Ray Dalio — “He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.”

Benjamin Graham — “The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.”

Phil Knight — “Play by the rules, but be fierce.”

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

Chris Hogan — “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.”

Paul Clitheroe — “A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.”

David Bach — “The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, and trains to forethought.”

Kevin O’Leary — “Cash is a fact, profit is an opinion.”

Morgan Housel — “Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money.”

Robert Arnott — “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.”

Burton Malkiel — “Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy.”

Helaine Olen — “Personal finance is more personal than it is finance.”

Zig Ziglar — “Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.”

Milton Friedman — “Inflation is taxation without legislation.”

Ruth Porat — “You have to understand financial statements. The balance sheet and income statement are the scorecard.”

Andrew Carnegie — “The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”

Bill Ackman — “The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity.”

Jack Bogle — “Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It’s cheaper!”

Franklin D. Roosevelt — “Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

Robert G. Allen — “How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.”

Daymond John — “Money doesn’t sleep, and neither should you when it comes to protecting your assets.”

Nassim Taleb — “You want to be bold and brave, but also paranoid and resilient.”

Barbara Corcoran — “The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the problem and they don’t understand the solution.”

Paul Samuelson — “Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”

John Wesley — “Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can.”

John Maynard Keynes — “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

Peter Bernstein — “The market is not a machine. It’s a crowd of people trying to make money.”

George Soros — “The worse a situation becomes, the less it takes to turn it around, and the bigger the upside.”

Charles Schwab — “The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.”

Simon Sinek — “Working hard for money is exactly the opposite of what you want to do. You want money to work hard for you.”

David Swensen — “The key to successful investing is to focus on the process, not the outcomes.”

Jean Chatzky — “The fastest way to change your net worth is to change your income.”

Ramit Sethi — “Spend extravagantly on the things you love, and cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t.”

Larry Fink — “Capitalism has the power to shape our lives and our futures, for better or worse.”

Kevin Trudeau — “Money is a byproduct of value. Focus on creating value and money will come.”

Grant Cardone — “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

T. Harv Eker — “How you do money is how you do life.”

Elon Musk — “If something is important enough, you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure.”

Howard Schultz — “In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart.”

Jeff Bezos — “What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do.”

Ray Kroc — “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

Steve Jobs — “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It’s very character-building.”

Sam Walton — “Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.”

Richard Branson — “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

Walt Disney — “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”

Ayn Rand — “Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.”

Henry Ford — “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

Liz Weston — “The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms.”

Michelle Singletary — “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.”

Clark Howard — “Never spend money before you have it.”

Orrin Woodward — “Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.”

Harvey S. Firestone — “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

Brian Tracy — “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”

Darren Hardy — “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

Jesse Livermore — “There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.”

Stanley Druckenmiller — “I believe in making money in the market, and I believe in protecting my gains.”

Carl Icahn — “You learn in this business: If you want a friend, get a dog.”

Peter Schiff — “The value of money is not determined by what the government says it is, but by what the market says it is.”

Ron Chernow — “Alexander Hamilton had an almost supernatural talent for finance.”

John Bogle — “The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.”

Jeremy Grantham — “The market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”

Seth Klarman — “The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.”

Joel Greenblatt — “The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less.”

Mohnish Pabrai — “Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much.”

Guy Spier — “The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.”

Tom Gayner — “The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less.”

Li Lu — “The most important thing in investing is to install the right mental circuitry.”

Francis Chou — “Investing is like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”

Donald Trump — “Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.”

Robert Shiller — “A bubble is a situation in which news of price increases spurs investor enthusiasm, which spreads by psychological contagion from person to person.”

Eugene Fama — “The market is efficient, but it’s not always right.”

Richard Thaler — “People aren’t dumb. The world is hard.”

Daniel Kahneman — “The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.”

Amos Tversky — “The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”

Meir Statman — “We are not rational, we are normal.”

Shlomo Benartzi — “Save more tomorrow, spend less today.”

Adam Smith — “The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”

Anonymous — “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” (also true for your finances)