50 Save Money Quotes by Great Individuals

Saving money is important because it allows you to have a financial cushion for unexpected expenses, helps you achieve your financial goals, and provides a sense of financial security and peace of mind.

In this article, I have put together over 50 quotes by great people who definitely have something to say about saving money.

50 save money quotes by great men and women

1. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
2. “Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
3. “Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
4. “The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” – Proverb
5. “It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” – Robert Kiyosaki (1947- )
6. “A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.” – William Feather (1889-1981)
7. “Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” – P.T. Barnum (1810-1891)
8. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers (1879-1935)
9. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus (55-135 AD)
10. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
11. “Money can’t buy happiness, but it’s a lot more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle.” – Unknown
12. “If you want to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
13. “Save a part of your income and begin now, for the man with a surplus controls circumstances and the man without a surplus is controlled by circumstances.” – Henry Buckley (1820-1868)
14. “A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it starts to rain.” – Robert Frost (1874-1963)
15. “It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it’s your spending habits.” – Charles A. Jaffe
16. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
17. “A bargain ain’t a bargain unless it’s something you need.” – Sidney Carroll
18. “He who buys what he does not need, steals from himself.” – Swedish Proverb
19. “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 (1830-1910)
20. “If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.” – J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
21. “The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your pocket.” – Kin Hubbard (1868-1930)
22. “Frugality includes all the other virtues.” – Cicero (106-43 BC)
23. “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” – Joe Biden (1942- )
24. “Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment, it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” – Aristotle
25. “Money grows on the tree of persistence.” – Japanese Proverb
26. “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” – Dave Ramsey (1960- )
27. “The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.” – Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
28. “A good reputation is more valuable than money.” – Publilius Syrus (1st century BC)
29. “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” – Jim Rohn (1930-2009)
30. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
31. “Savings, remember, is the prerequisite of investment.” – Campbell McConnell (1940- )
32. “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” – Kin Hubbard (1868-1930)
33. “When I had money everyone called me brother.” – Polish Proverb
34. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
35. “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” – Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
36. “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” – Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
37. “Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” – PT Barnum (1810-1891)
38. “Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.” – Nathan W. Morris
39. “If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.” – Joel Osteen (1963- )
40. “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.” – Warren Buffett (1930- )
41. “The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.” – Idowu Koyenikan
42. “Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” – John Wooden (1910-2010)
43. “If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right.” – William Shatner (1931- )
44. “It’s not about having it all. It’s about having what you value most.” – Jean Chatzky (1964- )
45. “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.” – Chris Rock (1965- )
46. “Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” – Jackie Mason (1931-2021)
47. “The man who saves today, is the man who has something tomorrow.” – Edgar Guest (1881-1959)
48. “The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success ‘permanently’ is to reset your financial thermostat.” – T. Harv Eker (1954- )
49. “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 (1960-)
50. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790