Motivational Quotes

Wealth

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, French

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

How much money is enough?

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

14.

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

15.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

19.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Astor, John Jacob

22.

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

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

25.

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

Benjamin Franklin

26.

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

Proverb, American

27.

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

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Mizner, Wilson

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Rand, Ayn

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

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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

38.

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

Seneca

39.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Socrates

42.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

43.

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

Chilo

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

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

Rex Stout

46.

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

47.

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

Ovid

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

Proverb

50.

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.