Top 180 Financial Success Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Warren Buffett

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2. “Never depend on a single income. Make investments to create a second source.”

— Warren Buffett

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3. “I am so happy and grateful now – that money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis.”

— Bob Proctor

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4. “Schools teach you how to work for money, but don’t teach how to make money work for you.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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5. “I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”

— Warren Buffett

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6. “I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.”

— Warren Buffett

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7. “To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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8. “Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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9. “My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.”

— T. Harv Eker

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10. “I refuse to apologize for my ability – I refuse to apologize for my success – I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.”

— Ayn Rand

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11. “What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifices made today go a long way for a better tomorrow.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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12. “I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.”

— George S. Clason

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13. “If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

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14. “Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.”

— Warren Buffett

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15. “Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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16. “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: Know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”

— Dave Thomas

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17. “Spend each day getting a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.”

— Charlie Munger

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18. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”

— Jim Rohn

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19. “All intelligent investing is value investing – acquiring more than you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.”

— Charlie Munger

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20. “Everybody’s got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.”

— Warren Buffett

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21. “Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.”

— Warren Buffett

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22. “Where you are today is the sum of every choice you’ve ever made. If you don’t like where you are, start making different choices!”

— Dave Ramsey

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23. “If you buy something because it’s undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its intrinsic value. That’s hard. But if you buy a few great companies, then you can sit on your ass. That’s a good thing.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Investing Quotes, Value Investing Principles

24. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”

— Warren Buffett

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25. “Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what’s actually happening to the companies in which you’ve invested.”

— Peter Lynch

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26. “There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company’s fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.”

— Peter Lynch

27. “When I’m bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don’t buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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28. “Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.”

— Warren Buffett

29. “Like most trends, at the beginning, it’s driven by fundamentals. At some point, speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.”

— Warren Buffett

30. “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”

— Madam C. J. Walker

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31. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

— Warren Buffett

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32. “Accounting is the language of business.”

— Warren Buffett

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33. “I never want money that I didn’t earn.”

— Casey Neistat

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34. “The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules.”

— Ed Seykota

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35. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Henry Ford

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36. “Don’t take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don’t be an impatient trader.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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37. “Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often.”

— Alexander Elder

38. “As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else’s.”

— Grant Cardone

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39. “Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.”

— Benjamin Graham

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40. “Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.”

— Ray Dalio

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41. “There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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42. “I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Value Investing Principles

43. “When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”

— Warren Buffett

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44. “All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.”

— Peter Lynch

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45. “To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.”

— Alexander Elder

46. “The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

— Napoleon Hill

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47. “Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.”

— Charlie Munger

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48. “No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That’s what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can’t understand moats.”

— Warren Buffett

49. “Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.”

— Richard Branson

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50. “Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.”

— John C. Bogle

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