Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, American

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

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

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

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

Wicker, John

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

10.

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

Rand, Ayn

11.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

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

Rex Stout

15.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

16.

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

Ovid

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

19.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Elizabeth Aston

21.

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

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

23.

How much money is enough?

24.

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

Mizner, Wilson

25.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

26.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Benjamin Franklin

30.

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

31.

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

Lucretius

32.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

36.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

37.

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

38.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

44.

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

45.

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

Seneca

46.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

47.

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

48.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

49.

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

50.

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