1. Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. - Donald Trump 

2. All money is a matter of belief. - Adam Smith 

3. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. - Benjamin Franklin

4. The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. - John Maynard Keynes 

5. We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. - Saint Stephen 

6. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin 

7. Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. - Benjamin Franklin 8. Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. - Will Rogers 

9. If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. - George Bernard Shaw 

10. It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. - Henry Ford 

11. The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. - Jean-Paul Sartre 

12. It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. - Albert Camus 

13. Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. - Warren Buffett 

14. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus 

15. I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it. - Joel Osteen 

16. You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. - Margaret Thatcher 

17. Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. - John Locke

18. The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. - John D. Rockefeller 

19. Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. - John D. Rockefeller 

20. Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. - Andrew Carnegie 

21. The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. - Andrew Carnegie 

22. Watch your finances like a hawk. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

23. The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. - Adam Smith 

24. We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. - Lee Iacocca 

25. About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. - Herbert Hoover 

26. I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. - Milton Friedman 

27. Inflation is taxation without legislation. - Milton Friedman 

28. Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. - J. Paul Getty 

29. A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life. - Suze Orman 

30. The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem. - Suze Orman 

31. Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation. - Suze Orman 

32. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. - Alan Greenspan 

33. Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. - Alan Greenspan 

34. Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy. - Alan Greenspan 

35. Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. - Richard Branson 

36. I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. - Honore de Balzac 

37. Finance, like time, devours its own children. - Honore de Balzac 

38. Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith 

39. Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. - John Kenneth Galbraith 

40. Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. - John Kenneth Galbraith 

41. I made my money by selling too soon. - Bernard Baruch 

42. The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face. - Mark Cuban 

43. Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have. - Mark Cuban 

44. The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. - Friedrich August von Hayek 

45. As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. - Bo Bennett 

46. I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. - Jules Renard 

47. The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge. - Dave Ramsey 

48. I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us. - Dave Ramsey 

49. You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities. - Dave Ramsey 

50. If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management. - Anita Roddick 

51. We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.' - Marco Rubio 

52. The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. - George Soros 

53. These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. - Henrik Ibsen 

54. Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. - Richard Wagner 

55. My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status. - Tommy Hilfiger