Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Lippett, John P.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Dietrich, Marlene

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Didion, Joan

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rivarol, Antoine

10.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

14.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

O'Casey, Sean

15.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

16.

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

17.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Solon

19.

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

20.

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

Rand, Ayn

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

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

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

27.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Rex Stout

29.

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

Proverb

30.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Mohammed

38.

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

39.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

40.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)