Motivational Quotes

Wealth

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

- Astor, John Jacob

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

2.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Taylor, Jeremy

3.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

4.

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

5.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Erasmus, Desiderius

6.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

7.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

8.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

9.

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

10.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Rockefeller, John D.

11.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

12.

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

13.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

14.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

16.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

17.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

O'Casey, Sean

19.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston

20.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

21.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

22.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

24.

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

25.

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

26.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

27.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Proverb

28.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

29.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.

Maus, Cynthia Pearl

31.

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Budgell, Eustace

32.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

35.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

36.

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Melbourne, Lord

37.

How much money is enough?

38.

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

41.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

42.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

43.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

44.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Astor, John Jacob

47.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

48.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Mohammed

49.

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

50.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.