Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

2.

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

Wall Street Journal

3.

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

Mohammed

4.

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

Venning, R.

5.

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

Proverb

6.

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

Chilo

7.

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

Wicker, John

8.

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

Rodman, Frances

9.

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

Benjamin Franklin

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

12.

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

Lucretius

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, French

15.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

21.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

22.

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

Astor, John Jacob

23.

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

Lippett, John P.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

27.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

31.

How much money is enough?

32.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

33.

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

34.

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

35.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

36.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

38.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

40.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

41.

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

Elizabeth Aston

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

44.

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

45.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

46.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

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

Rohn, Jim

49.

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

Bacon, Francis

50.

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