Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

2.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

3.

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

4.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

5.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

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

Mohammed

7.

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

Astor, John Jacob

8.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

14.

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

15.

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

Wall Street Journal

16.

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

Rohn, Jim

17.

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

Rodman, Frances

18.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

19.

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

Rex Stout

20.

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

Elizabeth Aston

21.

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

Chilo

22.

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

23.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

26.

How much money is enough?

27.

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

Bible

28.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

Rand, Ayn

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Seneca

38.

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

Wicker, John

39.

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

40.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

41.

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

Lippett, John P.

42.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

44.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Venning, R.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Lucretius