Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb

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

Dietrich, Marlene

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Mohammed

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Ovid

14.

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

Astor, John Jacob

15.

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

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

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

Chilo

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

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

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Rodman, Frances

25.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

26.

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

Wicker, John

27.

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

Elizabeth Aston

28.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Lippett, John P.

30.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

31.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

32.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

33.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

34.

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

35.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

36.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

37.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

39.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

40.

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

41.

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

Mizner, Wilson

42.

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

Socrates

43.

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

Rand, Ayn

44.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

45.

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

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

Proverb

47.

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

Seneca

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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

49.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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