Top 180 Financial Success Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The difference between a good business and a bad business is that good businesses throw up one easy decision after another. The bad businesses throw up painful decisions time after time.”

— Charlie Munger

102. “It’s not in the dreaming, it’s in the doing.”

— Mark Cuban

103. “Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don’t sleep. I’ve got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.”

— Curtis Jackson

104. “Everybody gets what they want out of the market.”

— Ed Seykota

105. “They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don’t. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

106. “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”

— Warren Buffett

107. “To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.”

— Jim Rohn

108. “Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.”

— Jay Conrad Levinson

109. “Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don’t believe it, but it’s true.”

— Oprah Winfrey

110. “You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.”

— Napoleon Hill

111. “Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!”

— Dave Ramsey

112. “And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

113. “We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.”

— Warren Buffett

114. “The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

115. “Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you’ve got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that’s the way we filter out buying opportunities.”

— Charlie Munger

116. “I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

117. “A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.”

— Benjamin Graham

118. “Results are the name of the game...”

— Jim Rohn

119. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”

— Warren Buffett

120. “My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.”

— Warren Buffett

121. “What you have to learn is to fold early when the odds are against you, or if you have a big edge, back it heavily because you don’t get a big edge often. Opportunity comes, but it doesn’t come often, so seize it when it does come.”

— Charlie Munger

122. “The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.”

— Peter Lynch

123. “I made a fortune getting out too soon.”

— J. P. Morgan

124. “You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”

— Michael Dell

125. “Success is the result of a clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.”

— James Caan

126. “Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management. These essentials are like three legs of a stool – remove one and the stool will fall, together with the person who sits on it.”

— Alexander Elder

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

— Warren Buffett

128. “People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something? Go get it.”

— Chris Gardner

129. “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.”

— Mark Cuban

130. “A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.”

— Warren Buffett

131. “There is no easy button in sales. Prospecting is hard, emotionally draining work, and it is the price you have to pay to earn a high income.”

— Jeb Blount

132. “Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

133. “It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it – who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet – that they can occasionally find one.”

— Charlie Munger

134. “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”

— Warren Buffett

135. “Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he’ll soon have no job to be on.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

136. “Don’t be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don’t make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.”

— Grant Cardone

137. “Criticism precedes admiration and – like it or not – goes hand in hand with success. Keep pouring on the success, and sooner or later, the very same people who were putting you down will be admiring you for what you have done.”

— Grant Cardone

138. “I turn bullish at the instant my buy stop is hit, and stay bullish until my sell stop is hit.”

— Ed Seykota

139. “Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.”

— Dave Ramsey

140. “To earn more, you must learn more.”

— Brian Tracy

141. “When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I’ve bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don’t know when you can find the bottom.”

— Peter Lynch

142. “It’s important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people’s mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people’s successes. It accelerates your own success.”

— Jim Rohn

143. “If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

144. “Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business.”

— Steve Forbes

145. “One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth – or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

146. “The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”

— Warren Buffett

147. “I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. ”

— Warren Buffett

148. “The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.”

— Alan Greenspan

149. “We don’t read other people’s opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.”

— Warren Buffett

150. “You can make a good living while serving a greater good.”

— Ivan Misner