Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

Lippett, John P.

2.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

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

Rex Stout

4.

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

Socrates

5.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Rohn, Jim

10.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

11.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

20.

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

Chilo

21.

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

Benjamin Franklin

22.

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

Wall Street Journal

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Venning, R.

25.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

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

29.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

30.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

31.

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

32.

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

Rodman, Frances

33.

How much money is enough?

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

38.

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

Wicker, John

39.

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

40.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

41.

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

42.

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

Mizner, Wilson

43.

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

44.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

46.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

47.

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

48.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

49.

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

Rand, Ayn

50.

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

Seneca