One of my main goals in life is to become financially free (also known as FIRE).💰
Because of this, I have rounded up some of the best financial independent and financial freedom quotes and sayings to help keep you motivated and inspired!
These quotes are great for anyone just starting their financial journey or those who are making steady ground and need a boost of encouragement. Let’s begin! 😃
63+ Best Financial Freedom Quotes For a Brighter Future!
1. “If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.” -Vicki Robin
2. “Financial freedom is freedom from fear.” – Robert Kiyosaki
3. “Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” – PT Barnum
4. “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau
5. “If you’re saving, you’re succeeding.” – Steve Burkholder
6. “The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms.” – Chris Brogan
7. “Financial independence is about having more choices.” – Robert Kiyosaki
8. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffet
9. “Whatever your income, always live below your means.” – Thomas J. Stanley
10. “Never spend your money before you have it.” – Thomas Jefferson
11. “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela
12. “A bad day fishing sure beats a good day at work.” – Proverb
13. “Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.” – Vicki Robin
14. “There are two ways to get rich – make more or desire less.” – Proverb
15. “Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” – Margaret Bonnano
16. “To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.” – David Bailey
17. “Working because you want to, not because you have to is financial freedom.” – Tony Robbins
18. “Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.” – Nathan W. Morris
19. “Financial freedom is less about financials and more about freedom.” – Manoj Arora
20. “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” – Seneca
21. “Financial freedom is available to all those who learn about it and work for it.” – Robert Kiyosaki
22. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
23. “Rich people believe ‘I create my life.’ Poor people believe ‘Life happens to me.” – T. Harv Eker
24. “Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” – Ronald Reagan
25. “Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.” – Michael Leboeuf
26. “A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.” – Alexa Von Tobel
27. “Whether socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.” – Warren Buffett
28. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” -Warren Buffett
29. “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” – Dave Ramsey
30. “There is no lower, middle, or upper class. There are the investor class and the people who have to work for a living.” – Unknown
31. “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” – Edmund Burke
32. “Financial fitness is not a pipe dream or a state of mind. It’s a reality if you are willing to pursue it and embrace it.” – Will Robinson
33. “The secret to creating lasting financial change is to decide to pay yourself first and then make it automatic.” – David Bach
34. “When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you’ll have financial freedom.” – Suze Orman
35. “Every day is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.” – Christopher Rice
36. “The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time.” – Robert Kiyosaki
37. “A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.” – Suze Orman
38. “The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.” – Robert Kiyosaki
39. “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” – Steve Jobs
40. “More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.” – Roger Babson
41. “Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.” – John Bogle
42. “Too many people spend money they earned… to buy things they don’t want… to impress people that they don’t like.” – Will Rogers
43. “There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.” – Calvin Coolidge
44. “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” – Unknown
45. “Your assets are your employees. Invest more in those performing well. Let the non-performers go.” – Manoj Arora
46. “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” – Albert Barlett
47. “The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.” – Robert Kiyosaki
48. “At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.” – Brian Tracy
49. “More important than how we achieve financial freedom, is the why. Find your reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.” – Robert Kiyosaki
50. “Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
51. “The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more.” – Tony Robbins
52. “If you want to be financially free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.” – Robert Kiyosaki
53. “Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it ensures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” – Aristotle
54. “Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this.” – Dave Ramsey
55. “The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.” – T. T. Munger
56. “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” – George Lorimer
57. “Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce – to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That’s true financial independence. It’s not having wealth; it’s having the power to produce wealth.” – Stephen Covey
58. “Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce – to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That’s true financial independence. It’s not having wealth; it’s having the power to produce wealth.” – Stephen Covey
59. “To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn a profit into an investment, and turn the investment into financial independence.” – Jim Rohn
60. “I remember saying to my mentor, ‘If I had more money, I would have a better plan.’ He quickly responded, ‘I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.’ You see, it’s not the amount that counts; it’s the plan that counts.” – Jim Rohn
61. “Real wealth is not about money. Real wealth is: not having to go to meetings, not having to spend time with jerks, not being locked into status games, not feeling like you have to say ‘yes,’ not worrying about others claiming your time and energy. Real wealth is about freedom.” – James Clear
Final Thoughts
Hopefully, this list of financial freedom quotes has helped you to stay motivated or even become inspired if you are just starting out.
Also, if I have missed any important financial independence quotes that you think are must-haves, please share them below and I will be more than happy to include them in future updates.
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