Top 40 Making Money Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Warren Buffett

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2. “The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it.”

— Kate Chopin

3. “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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4. “I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.”

— John D. Rockefeller

5. “Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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6. “You either make sense or you make money.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

7. “Don’t just make money, make a difference.”

— Grant Cardone

8. “Making money is a common sense. It’s not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

9. “It does not take money to make money.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

10. “Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success – and success is in direct proportion to our service.”

— Earl Nightingale

11. “If you make meaning, you’ll make money.”

— Guy Kawasaki

12. “The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.”

— Guy Kawasaki

13. “Don’t go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.”

— Marianne Williamson

14. “I’m not interested in making money. It’s just that with my talent, I’m cursed with it.”

— Noel Gallagher

15. “We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil.”

— Larry Page

16. “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”

— Walt Disney

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17. “Find something you love to do. If you don’t make money at it, at least you love going to work.”

— Mark Cuban

18. “It’s not difficult to make money – it’s different.”

— Marshall Sylver

19. “Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

20. “Making money isn’t the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you’re doing something you love, you’re more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money.”

— Warren Buffett

21. “Human beings are much bigger than just making money.”

— Muhammad Yunus

22. “When you know how to make money, you’re obligated to.”

— Marshall Sylver

23. “A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money.”

— Ed Seykota

24. “The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it’s not going to go up, don’t buy it!”

— Will Rogers

25. “Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.”

— Charles Dickens

26. “Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.”

— Muhammad Yunus

27. “Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

28. “The only way to get money out of politics is to get politics out of money-making.”

— Richard Salsman

29. “If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.”

— Guy Kawasaki

30. “You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

31. “The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.”

— Guy Kawasaki

32. “We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus “following the market”. We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.”

— Benjamin Graham

33. “You can only make money if you buy a product, whatever it is – maybe a currency, maybe wheat and maybe something else – at a relatively low price and sell it at a higher price than you buy it at. There’s no other way to make money.”

— Milton Friedman

34. “The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You’re not.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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35. “It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.”

— Benjamin Graham

36. “Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.”

— E.C. Riegel

37. “If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

38. “Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it’s not about how much money you spend, it’s about how wisely you spend it.”

— John Riggins

39. “Can’t say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.”

— Mark Cuban

40. “I also don’t like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don’t like.”

— Dario Argento