Motivational Quotes

Wealth

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Lippett, John P.

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

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

Chilo

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

Venning, R.

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

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

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

Proverb

14.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

15.

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

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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

17.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

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

19.

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

Mizner, Wilson

20.

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

Socrates

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

30.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Lucretius

32.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

35.

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

Ovid

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Elizabeth Aston

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

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