Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Solon

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.

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

12.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

20.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

21.

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

Bible

23.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

24.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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

Socrates

28.

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

Rodman, Frances

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

33.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Ovid

35.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Chilo

38.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Wall Street Journal

41.

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

Venning, R.

42.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

43.

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

Elizabeth Aston

44.

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

Rex Stout

45.

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

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.

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

48.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

49.

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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von