Money Quotes

These 48 quotes on money come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. — Muhammad Yunus
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations.
Muhammad Yunus
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Gautama Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Gautama Buddha
We are the first generation to be able to end poverty, and the last generation that can take steps to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. — Ban Ki-moon
We are the first generation to be able to end poverty, and the last generation that can take steps to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Ban Ki-moon
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
Michelle Obama
Fortune favors the bold. — Virgil
Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. — Bob Marley
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Bob Marley
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. — Epictetus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
The wise know the worth of money, but the rich do not know the worth of knowledge. — Al-Biruni
The wise know the worth of money, but the rich do not know the worth of knowledge.
Al-Biruni
Learning is the true imperishable riches; all other things are not riches. — Thiruvalluvar
Learning is the true imperishable riches; all other things are not riches.
Thiruvalluvar
Even kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. — Guru Nanak
Even kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart. — Rumi
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
Rumi
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer. — Dalai Lama
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
Dalai Lama
In planning to acquire your share of the riches, let no one influence you to scorn the dreamer. — Napoleon Hill
In planning to acquire your share of the riches, let no one influence you to scorn the dreamer.
Napoleon Hill
Making money is happiness, but making other people happy is super-happiness. — Muhammad Yunus
Making money is happiness, but making other people happy is super-happiness.
Muhammad Yunus
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being. — Amartya Sen
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being.
Amartya Sen
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. — Aristotle
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
Aristotle
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. — Epictetus
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Epictetus
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. — Kahlil Gibran
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran
Making money is a happiness; making other people happy is a super happiness. — Muhammad Yunus
Making money is a happiness; making other people happy is a super happiness.
Muhammad Yunus
Explore more: All topics · 100 best quotes · All authors