Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Socrates

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

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

Wall Street Journal

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

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

Ovid

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

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

12.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

13.

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

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

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

17.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

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

Rand, Ayn

19.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

20.

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

Benjamin Franklin

21.

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

22.

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

Venning, R.

23.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

24.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

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

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

31.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

32.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

33.

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

34.

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

Mohammed

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

36.

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

37.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Chilo

42.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

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

Proverb, American

45.

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

46.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

48.

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

49.

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

Solon

50.

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

Proverb, French