How To Make Money & Be Successful According To 31 Legendary People (Quotes Post)
Last Updated on 10/17/2024 by Nicky
There is so much wisdom in the Bible about money and it’s definitely something that I will continue to talk about in the future.
But you can find inspiration and knowledge from others as well when it comes to making money and being successful.
In fact, the advice that these legendary people give about making money is often counterintuitive to the way many people think you become wealthy.
There is a refrain inherit in these quotes about money which I find quite refreshing. Many of them purport the values of hard work, never giving up, being courageous, and being wise.
Let’s take a look at what these people have to say.
How To Make Money & Be Successful According To 31 Legendary People
1. Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.
–Will Rogers
2. It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
–David Feherty
3. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
–Benjamin Franklin
4. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
–Thomas Edison
5. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
–Jim Rohn
6. 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.
–Dave Ramsey
7. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
–George Lorimer
8. You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.
–Maya Angelou
9. Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing.
–J. Paul Getty
10. 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
11. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
–Robert G. Allen
12. The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.
–Ben Graham
13. You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. –Dave Ramsey
14. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
–Zig Ziglar
15. Never spend your money before you have it.
–Thomas Jefferson
16. 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.
–Robert Kiyosaki
17. 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
18. Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.”
–Joe Biden
19. Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
–William A. Ward
20. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
–David Brinkley
21. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
–John Wayne
22. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
–Ayn Rand
23. Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
–Robert Kiyosaki
24. If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!
–Jonathan Winters
25. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
–Zig Ziglar
26. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.
–Donald Trump
27.The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
–Vidal Sassoon
28. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
–Winston Churchill
29. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
–Lao Tzu
30. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
–Oprah Winfrey
31. The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.
–Warren Buffett
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