Top 180 Financial Success Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhabit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.”

— Charlie Munger

52. “Remember, there’s ultimately only one way to financial peace, and that’s to walk daily with the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus.”

— Dave Ramsey

53. “A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong – not taking the loss – that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

54. “Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.”

— Dave Ramsey

55. “Very successful people say no to almost everything.”

— Warren Buffett

56. “Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.”

— Alexander Elder

57. “Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.”

— Tony Robbins

58. “If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.”

— Warren Buffett

59. “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

— Ray Kroc

60. “The biggest risk of all is not taking one.”

— Mellody Hobson

61. “Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don’t try to play the market all the time. It can’t be done, too tough on the emotions.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

62. “For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.”

— Zig Ziglar

63. “It isn’t as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

64. “It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.”

— Ed Seykota

65. “If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it’s coming in, it’ll never happen. The market is always right.”

— Ed Seykota

66. “Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.”

— Gary W. Keller

67. “The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

68. “The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

69. “It’s much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.”

— Warren Buffett

70. “Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.”

— Ray Dalio

71. “I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.”

— John D. Rockefeller

72. “Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.”

— Steve Jobs

73. “When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.”

— Zig Ziglar

74. “My Rich Dad said, ‘All of us have the power of choice. I choose to be rich, and I make that choice every day.’”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

75. “We have three baskets for investing: yes, no and too tough to understand. ”

— Charlie Munger

76. “Every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

77. “I’m always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don’t focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

78. “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.”

— Dave Ramsey

79. “Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.”

— Napoleon Hill

80. “Investment must be rational; if you can’t understand it, don’t do it.”

— Warren Buffett

81. “If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don’t owe anyone an apology for winning.”

— Dave Ramsey

82. “The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.”

— Tommy Hilfiger

83. “There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

84. “The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.”

— Brian Tracy

85. “If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them Risk control is the most important thing in trading. If you have a losing position that is making you uncomfortable, the solution is very simple: Get out, because you can always get back in.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

86. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

— Warren Buffett

87. “Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

88. “Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don’t even call it work; for them, it’s a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!”

— Grant Cardone

89. “In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.”

— Benjamin Graham

90. “In a gold rush, sell shovels.”

— Unknown

91. “If you can’t read the scoreboard, you don’t know the score. If you don’t know the score, you can’t tell the winners from the losers.”

— Warren Buffett

92. “To win in the markets, we need to master three essential components of trading: sound psychology, a logical trading system, and an effective risk management plan.”

— Alexander Elder

93. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”

— Warren Buffett

94. “The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

95. “At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

96. “Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.”

— Peter F. Drucker

97. “There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.”

— Calvin Coolidge

98. “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”

— Robert Foster Bennett

99. “Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility.”

— Grant Cardone

100. “Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.”

— Charlie Munger