Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Ovid

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Socrates

10.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

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.

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

19.

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

Rex Stout

20.

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

Rand, Ayn

21.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

22.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

23.

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

Venning, R.

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

26.

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

27.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Rodman, Frances

29.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

31.

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

Wall Street Journal

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

Chilo

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

36.

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

Solon

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Billings, Josh

46.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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.

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.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von