Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rex Stout

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

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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.

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

10.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

11.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

Astor, John Jacob

14.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

15.

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

Mohammed

16.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

24.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

25.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

27.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

30.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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

Proverb, American

33.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

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

Benjamin Franklin

35.

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

Rand, Ayn

36.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

37.

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 so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Melbourne, Lord

39.

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

40.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Chilo

43.

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

44.

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

Proverb, Spanish

45.

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

Rodman, Frances

46.

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

Billings, Josh

47.

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

48.

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

Socrates

49.

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth