80 Millionaire Quotes From Some Of The Most Successful People On Earth

Rajnandini Roychoudhury
Dec 12, 2023 By Rajnandini Roychoudhury
Originally Published on Mar 11, 2021
Edited by Jacob Fitzbright
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Being a millionaire or billionaire is much more than stuffing money into one’s bank account.

To make a fortune, one needs to go through steps of failure and education. Millionaires have a tendency to follow a low profile lifestyle as they are aware of the toils leading to success.

Do you have a desire to know the thought process of millionaires? For education about being a millionaire, go through millionaire quotes. It gives you a peek into the millionaire mindset quotes and the goals that have given them such excessive wealth.

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Inspirational Millionaire Quotes

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Want to grow wealthy in the next ten years? Read the millionaire motivational quotes below to know the mindset and action plan of millionaires.  

1. “I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”

‒ Jeff Bezos.

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

‒ Warren Buffett.

3. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

‒ Mark Zuckerberg.

4. “Relentlessly strive to come up with new and better products and produce them more efficiently than the alternatives.”

‒ Charles G. Koch.

5. “It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.”

‒ Sara Blakely.

6. “I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.”

‒ Larry Ellison.

7. “Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it.”

‒ Jim Rohn.

8. “The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.”

‒ Oprah Winfrey.

9. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

‒ Elon Musk.

10. “As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.”

‒ Michael Dell.

11. “There's no bad time to innovate.”

‒ Jeff Bezos.

12. “If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.”

‒ T. Harv Eker.

13. “Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one.”

‒ Thomas J. Stanley.

14. “We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”

Earl Nightingale.

15.  “I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations. ”

‒ Sergey Brin.

Funny Millionaire Quotes

Here are some motivational millionaire quotes and millionaire mentor quotes that will crack you up.

16. “If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.”

‒ Richard Branson.

17. “I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”

‒ Mark Twain, ‘American Claimant’.

18. “If there are some losses that you take, then we're all big boys - we shouldn't be crying.”

‒ Mukesh Ambani.

19. “If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”

‒ Warren Buffett.

20. “I've said this before: a homeless guy in Detroit has more mojo than a millionaire in Jacksonville.”

‒ Shahid Khan.

21. “No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”

‒ Cesare Pavese.

22. “Resenting the rich is one of the surest ways to stay broke.”

‒ T. Harv Eker.

23. “You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.”

‒ Pete Fountain.

24. “It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.”

‒ Matt LeBlanc.

25. “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”

‒ Jim Carrey.

26. “For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.”

‒ Tracy Morgan.

27. “Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow.”

‒ Oscar Wilde, ‘The Model Millionaire’.

28. “I want to put a ding in the universe.”

‒ Steve Jobs.

29. “You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.”

‒ Vance Packard.

30. “When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.”

‒ Larry Elisson.

Self Made Millionaire Quotes On Success

Self made millionaire quotes show us the path to become rich. Here are some millionaire success quotes, rich quotes and inspirational money quotes to invigorate your will to take the action towards rise.

31. “Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.”

‒ Jeff Bezos.

32. “I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.”

‒ Larry Elisson.

33. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

‒ Elon Musk.

34. “The thing that has made YouTube so successful is that you can relate to the people you’re watching to a much higher degree than to the people you see on TV.”

‒ Felix Arvid Elf Kjellberg.

35. “Every day, I'm trying to push the boundaries creatively, and sometimes it does push the boundary too far, and that's what I had to learn.”

‒ Jake Paul.

36. “Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.”

‒ Gary Vaynerchuk.

37. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

‒ Coco Chanel.

38. “People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.”

‒ Robert Plant.

39. “I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.”

‒ Walter Hagen.

40. “Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.”

‒ Sheryl Sandberg.

41. “My philosophy is that if I have any money, I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.”

‒ Richard Branson.

42. “Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. ”

Mark Cuban.

43. “If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.”

‒ Carlos Slim Helu.

44. “One of the things I’m trying to get better at is apologizing when I make mistakes. That’s been a big priority of mine.”

‒ Evan Spiegel.

45. “Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.”

‒ Garrett Champ.

Millionaire Goals Quotes

Rich millionaire lifestyle quotes, millionaire motivation quotes and money inspirational quotes like these inspire you for self action to turn a poor man into a millionaire.

46. “Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.”

‒ Walter Hagen.

47. “An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.”

‒ Benjamin Franklin.

48. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.”

‒ Oprah Winfrey.

49. “In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.”

Suze Orman.

50. “After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.”

‒ Aristotle Onassis.

51. “I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire.”

‒ Cecelia Ahern.

52. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”

‒ Steve Jobs.

53. “The only difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they use their time.”

Robert Kiyosaki.

54. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”

‒ J. Paul Getty.

55. “The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star… The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.”

‒ James Earl Jones.

56. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”

‒ Henry Ford.

57. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”

‒ Les Brown.

58. “If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks.”

‒ John C. Bogle.

59. “If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”

‒ Aziz Premji.

60. “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

‒ Ingvar Kamprad.

Billionaire Bill Gates Quotes

When it comes to financial fortune, Bill Gates cannot be ignored. Here are some thought-provoking quotes from him.

61. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

‒ Bill Gates, ‘The Road Ahead’.

62. “It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

‒ Bill Gates.

63. “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.”

‒ Bill Gates.

64. “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

‒ Bill Gates.

65. “In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition.”

‒ Bill Gates.

66. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.”

‒ Bill Gates.

67. “If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”

‒ Bill Gates.

68. “To a certain extent, a little blindness is necessary when you undertake a risk.”

‒ Bill Gates, ‘Bill Gates Speaks’.

69. “Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”

‒ Bill Gates.

70. “If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.”

‒ Bill Gates.

71. “Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. ”

‒ Bill Gates.

72. “Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.”

‒ Bill Gates.

73. “When you have money in hand only you forget who are you but when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forgets who you are. It’s life!”

‒ Bill Gates.

74. “Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super big thing.”

‒ Bill Gates.

75. “Life is not fair, get used to it.”

‒ Bill Gates.

Millionaire Quotes From Prosperous Women

Here are some millionaire lady quotes and motivational money quotes from female millionaires.

76. “Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”

‒ Madame C. J. Walker.

77. “It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

‒ J. K. Rowling.

78. “Impatience is a virtue.”

‒ Ursula Burns.

79. “The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.”

‒ Arianna Huffington.

80. “Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.”

‒ Abigail Johnson.

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Written by Rajnandini Roychoudhury

Bachelor of Arts specializing in English, Master of Arts specializing in English

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Rajnandini RoychoudhuryBachelor of Arts specializing in English, Master of Arts specializing in English

With a Master of Arts in English, Rajnandini has pursued her passion for the arts and has become an experienced content writer. She has worked with companies such as Writer's Zone and has had her writing skills recognized by publications such as The Telegraph. Rajnandini is also trilingual and enjoys various hobbies such as music, movies, travel, philanthropy, writing her blog, and reading classic British literature. 

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