Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Rodman, Frances

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

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

Ovid

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

10.

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

11.

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

Astor, John Jacob

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Ruskin, John

14.

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb, American

15.

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

Elizabeth Aston

16.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

17.

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Butler, Samuel

18.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

19.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

20.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

21.

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.

22.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Defoe, Daniel

23.

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

Seneca

24.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

25.

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

26.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Benjamin Franklin

28.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

30.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

32.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

33.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

37.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

38.

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

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

40.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

41.

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

Wicker, John

42.

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

43.

You can never be too rich or too thin.