Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Ovid

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Rodman, Frances

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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

Seneca

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

Benjamin Franklin

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

12.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

13.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

15.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

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

Rohn, Jim

17.

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

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

Wicker, John

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This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

22.

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

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

Venning, R.

28.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa

29.

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

Elizabeth Aston

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

33.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible

34.

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

Socrates

35.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

36.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

39.

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

Proverb

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The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Didion, Joan

41.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

42.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

43.

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

Rex Stout

44.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

45.

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

46.

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

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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

48.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bible