Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Mohammed

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

13.

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

14.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

15.

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

Venning, R.

16.

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

Mizner, Wilson

17.

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

Lippett, John P.

18.

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

19.

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

Rand, Ayn

20.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Socrates

22.

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

Astor, John Jacob

23.

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

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

25.

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

Elizabeth Aston

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb

28.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

30.

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

Lucretius

31.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

32.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

33.

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

34.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

35.

How much money is enough?

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

42.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

Seneca

44.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

45.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

49.

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

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.

Cocteau, Jean