47 Powerful Quotes That Will Inspire a Mindset for True Wealth
Before anyone earns, one has to learn.
I wholeheartedly believe education frees up the mind and is a wonderful engine for development – personally and professionally.
Because thoughts shape reality; a person’s worldview changes when they believe it to be so. Even if you have to trick yourself with the smallest question – “What if?” – to get you started.
And this became my foundation years ago when I started my financial journey.
And what happened was not just the motivation and momentum to keep going, but a whole perspective shift (onto how millionaires truly think).
You can make more money outside of the possible limits society has projected onto you. But you cannot stay in your head (aka overthinking). Here’s an (ongoing) collection of my favourite quotes that will have you take inspired action.
So here’s a list of my favourite quotes.
Inspiration with quotes? Really?
Yes! And the best inspirational quotes stood the test of time.
Little valuable and bit-sized inspiration and coaching. The message is that someone else believes you can achieve what you want to achieve. And you believe it to be true – you’re more likely to achieve it.
Especially if it’s from people who have been in our situation before. It makes be believe I could do it too.
on how to think about money
- “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand
- “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” – Erich Fromm
- “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
- “The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.” – unknown
- “Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”- Daniel Kahneman
- “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar
- “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
- “It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” – Albert Camus
- “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
- “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” – Edmund Burke
- “To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.” – Berthold Auerbach
- “Never spend your money before you have earned it.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “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
- “Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.” – Françoise Sagan
- “Earn with your mind, not your time.” – Naval Ravikant (Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first.”)
- “Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” – Miguel de Cervantes
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
- “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“It’s more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It’s more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.”
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- “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
- “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 😂
- View money and things not as something you create to fill a lack, but as tools to help you more fully express yourself and realize your potential.” —Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
- “An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.” —Benjamin Franklin
- “Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.” —Jim Rohn
- “Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.” —Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is not in everyone’s power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.” —Luc De Clapiers
- “Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.” —Nelson Mandela
- “Fortune sides with him who dares.” —Virgil
- “No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself” —Plato
- It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. – Seneca
- The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left. -John Rohn
- The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people – Peter Diamandis
- We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. – Walt Disney
- I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it. – Thomas A. Edison.
- Money is a great servant but a bad master. – Francis Bacon
- Money does not buy happiness – it buys Freedom. – Naval Ravikant
- Seek 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
- Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options. – Chris Rock
- Rich people think big. Poor people think small. – T. Harv Eker
Funny Money Quotes
I believe the most memorable quotes are also the ones that make you laugh, and then make you think. Here’s a few of my favourites:
- “I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.” – Malcolm Forbes
- Inflation is taxation without legislation – Milton Friedman
- If you think no one cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. – Earl Wilson
- Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys – P.J. O’Rourke
- Whoever said money cannot buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping. – Gertrude Stein
- A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don’t need it. – Bob Hope
- Most people work hard just enough to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. – George Carlin
Do you have one that you keep close to you? What quote has inspired you?
If You Don’t Find a Way to Make Money While You Sleep, You Will Work Until You Die.
Warren Buffet is perhaps the best investor of our time and he said this above quote.
Can you imagine making money while you sleep? To wake up to notifications that your bank account just went up?
At first, it was something so farfetched I couldn’t imagine it happening to me. Yet, it should get everyone thinking : just how are we spending our time?
The image here shows your life in weeks. The average person will spend majority of their lives working (highlighted in red).
It’s a lot bigger than your purple retirement. You’ll realize your time in red is actually halved because you’re sleeping half the time.
You’ll do what you’re told and by what you think is the norm. You’ll put your head down and hustle and hustle. And when you finally lift your head up…
How did I get here? Where did the decades go?
So, I urge you to ask yourself if you are truly content and fulfilled with spending majority of your adult life doing the same job in the next few decades?
If not, it’s time to find a way out.
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