Famous Investing and Personal Finance Quotes

  

📈 Investing Quotes

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

2. “The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” – Philip Fisher

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

4. “In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.” – Benjamin Graham

5. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett

6. “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett

7. “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

8. “The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.’” – Sir John Templeton

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

10. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett

11. “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.” – Warren Buffett

12. “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” – Warren Buffett

13. “It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.” – George Soros

14. “Invest for the long haul. Don’t get too greedy and don’t get too scared.” – Shelby M.C. Davis

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

16. “The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.” – Benjamin Graham

17. “If you’re not willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes.” – Warren Buffett

18. “Time in the market beats timing the market.” – Ken Fisher

19. “Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.” – Warren Buffett

20. “Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.” – Sir John Templeton

21. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.” – Warren Buffett

22. “The function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

23. “Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.” – Warren Buffett

24. “The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains, they cannot sit tight.” – Jesse Livermore

25. “If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks.” – John Bogle

26. “Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.” – Baron Rothschild

27. “The best investment you can make is in yourself.” – Warren Buffett

28. “Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.” – Jason Zweig

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

30. “The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.” – Benjamin Graham

31. “Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.” – Benjamin Graham

32. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

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

34. “Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all investors.” – Warren Buffett

35. “Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.” – Peter Lynch

36. “You make most of your money in a bear market, you just don’t realize it at the time.” – Shelby Davis

37. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.” – Warren Buffett

38. “A 10% decline in the market is fairly common – it happens about once a year. Investors who realize this are less likely to panic and sell at the wrong time.” – Burton Malkiel

39. “A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett

40. “The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.” – Warren Buffett

41. “I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett

42. “Compounding is the eighth wonder of the world.” – Albert Einstein (attributed)

43. “Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away.” – Jim Cramer

44. “Never invest in a business you cannot understand.” – Warren Buffett

45. “Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ. What you need is the temperament to control urges that get others into trouble.” – Warren Buffett

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💰 Personal Finance Quotes

46. “Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.” – Warren Buffett

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

48. “The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms.” – Chris Brogan

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

50. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus

51. “Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” – P.T. Barnum

52. “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” – Dave Ramsey

53. “The best thing money can buy is financial freedom.” – Rob Berger

54. “Money grows on the tree of persistence.” – Japanese Proverb

55. “Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” – James W. Frick

56. “Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make.” – Dave Ramsey

57. “Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” – Margaret Bonnano

58. “It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it’s your spending habits.” – Charles A. Jaffe

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

60. “When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you’ll have financial freedom.” – Suze Orman

61. “The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does.” – Tony Robbins

62. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau

63. “If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.” – Vicki Robin

64. “Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.” – Haruki Murakami

65. “Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

66. “The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” – Proverb

67. “He who buys what he does not need, steals from himself.” – Swedish Proverb

68. “Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have.” – Ernest Haskins

69. “Balancing your money is the key to having enough.” – Elizabeth Warren

70. “If you want to feel rich, just count all the gifts you have that money can’t buy.” – Unknown

71. “Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give.” – Adam Neumann

72. “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.” – Chris Rock

73. “Make your money work so hard for you that you don’t have to work for it.” – Unknown

74. “Frugality includes all the other virtues.” – Cicero

75. “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – William Bruce Cameron

76. “Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin

77. “Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.” – Natasha Munson

78. “Rich people stay rich by living like they’re broke. Broke people stay broke by living like they’re rich.” – Unknown

79. “Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.” – Mike Todd

80. “You don’t have to be smarter than the rest. You have to be more disciplined than the rest.” – Benjamin Graham

81. “Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.” – Henry Wheeler Shaw

82. “Before you speak, listen. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate.” – William A. Ward

83. “If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.” – Warren Buffett

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

85. “Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.” – Robert Kiyosaki

86. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand

87. “Never spend your money before you have it.” – Thomas Jefferson

88. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

89. “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

90. “Don’t go broke trying to look rich. Act your wage.” – Dave Ramsey

91. “You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of your finances so you can take care of others.” – Unknown

92. “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.” – Warren Buffett

93. “It’s easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.” – Craig Ferguson

94. “Financial fitness is not a pipe dream or a state of mind — it’s a reality if you are willing to pursue it and embrace it.” – Will Robinson

95. “Being financially literate means you understand money well enough to make it work for you — not the other way around.” – Unknown

96. “Money isn’t everything, but it ranks right up there with oxygen.” – Zig Ziglar

97. “You can have anything you want — but not everything.” – David Allen

98. “Never depend on a single income. Make investment to create a second source.” – Warren Buffett

99. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

100. “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” – Unknown