Motivational Quotes

Wealth

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

2.

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

3.

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

Venning, R.

4.

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

5.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

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

7.

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

Rodman, Frances

8.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

9.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

10.

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

11.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

12.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

13.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

14.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

16.

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

Mizner, Wilson

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

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

Lippett, John P.

19.

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

Proverb, American

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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.

22.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

26.

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

Seneca

27.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

29.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

How much money is enough?

33.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

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

Solon

35.

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

Astor, John Jacob

36.

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

Bacon, Francis

37.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

38.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

40.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

41.

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

Proverb

42.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

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.