Top 80 George S. Clason Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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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2. “Where the determination is, the way can be found.”

— George S. Clason

3. “Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.”

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4. “Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a.”

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5. “Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.”

— George S. Clason

6. “Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.”

— George S. Clason

7. “Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.”

— George S. Clason

8. “It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.”

— George S. Clason

9. “Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.”

— George S. Clason

10. “Action will lead you forward to the success you desire.”

— George S. Clason

11. “Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.”

— George S. Clason

12. “Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.”

— George S. Clason

13. “Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.”

— George S. Clason

14. “Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.”

— George S. Clason

15. “Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.”

— George S. Clason

16. “It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.”

— George S. Clason

17. “Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.”

— George S. Clason

18. “A lean purse is easier to cure than to endure.”

— George S. Clason

19. “Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.”

— George S. Clason

20. “If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend’s burdens upon thyself.”

— George S. Clason

21. “Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.”

— George S. Clason

22. “Wealth that comes quickly, goeth the same way.”

— George S. Clason

23. “Each man has to work out his own understanding of what needs to be done, and then prepare himself to take advantage of the opportunity to succeed in a big way.”

— George S. Clason

24. “Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.”

— George S. Clason

25. “The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.”

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26. “Recuerda que el trabajo bien hecho hace bien al que lo realiza, lo convierte en un mejor hombre”.”

— George S. Clason

27. “Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow. The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath its shade.”

— George S. Clason

28. “Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.”

— George S. Clason

29. “Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.”

— George S. Clason

30. “In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.”

— George S. Clason

31. “A part of all I earn is mine to keep!”

— George S. Clason

32. “The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one’s mind works – also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.”

— George S. Clason

33. “He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.”

— George S. Clason

34. “The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly rewarded.”

— George S. Clason

35. “As for time, all men have it in abundance.”

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36. “Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?”

— George S. Clason

37. “That what each of us calls our necessary expenses will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.”

— George S. Clason

38. “If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?”

— George S. Clason

39. “You’ve learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you’ve learned to make gold work for you.”

— George S. Clason

40. “Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having. He who takes advice about his savings from one who is inexperienced in such matters, shall pay with his savings for proving the falsity of their opinions.”

— George S. Clason

41. “Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens that sing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse.”

— George S. Clason

42. “I will tell you these things you wish to know because I am becoming an old man, and an old tongue loves to wag. And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years. But too often does youth think that age knows only the wisdom of days that are gone, and therefore profits not. But remember this, the sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.”

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43. “In tilling the soil, in honest trading, in all of man’s occupations, there is opportunity to make a profit upon his efforts and his transactions. Perhaps not all the time will he be rewarded because sometimes his judgment may be faulty and other times the winds and the weather may defeat his efforts. Yet, if he persists, he may usually expect to realize his profit. This is so because the chances of profit are always in his favor.”

— George S. Clason

44. “Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.”

— George S. Clason

45. “We are more apt to change our minds when right than wrong.”

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46. “A part of all I earn is mine to keep.′ Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say it at night. Say it each hour of every day. Say it to yourself until the words stand out like letters of fire across the sky.”

— George S. Clason

47. “Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.”

— George S. Clason

48. “But too often does youth think that age knows only the wisdom of days that are gone, and therefore profits not. But remember this; the sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.”

— George S. Clason

49. “Success means accomplishments as the result of our own efforts and abilities. Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.”

— George S. Clason

50. “Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.”

— George S. Clason