Motivational Quotes

Wealth

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Seneca

How much money is enough?

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb, American

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Astor, John Jacob

12.

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

13.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Venning, R.

15.

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

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

Proverb

17.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Solon

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

Bible

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

Wall Street Journal

26.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

27.

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

Lucretius

28.

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

Rand, Ayn

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Elizabeth Aston

34.

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

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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

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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

38.

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

Mizner, Wilson

39.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dietrich, Marlene

43.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Peter, Laurence J.

45.

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

Mohammed

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

48.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

49.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth