Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

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

Rex Stout

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Ovid

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

18.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

20.

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

Benjamin Franklin

21.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Mohammed

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

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

26.

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

Mizner, Wilson

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

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

Lippett, John P.

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Wall Street Journal

34.

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.

35.

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

Elizabeth Aston

36.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

40.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

41.

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

Seneca

42.

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