Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

2.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

3.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

4.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

8.

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

Ovid

9.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

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

Venning, R.

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Seneca

15.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

16.

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

Wicker, John

17.

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

Lippett, John P.

18.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon

19.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

20.

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

21.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

22.

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

23.

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

Socrates

24.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

25.

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

26.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Mizner, Wilson

30.

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

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Benjamin Franklin

35.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Young, Andrew

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

38.

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

39.

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

Astor, John Jacob

40.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

41.

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

42.

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

43.

How much money is enough?

44.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

46.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

48.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

49.

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

50.

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

Rohn, Jim