Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

2.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

3.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

4.

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

5.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

6.

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

Rodman, Frances

7.

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

Bible

8.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

9.

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

Chilo

10.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

13.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

Rand, Ayn

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

17.

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

Lucretius

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Socrates

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Astor, John Jacob

23.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

25.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

How much money is enough?

29.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Young, Andrew

32.

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

33.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

36.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

38.

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

39.

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

Venning, R.

40.

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

41.

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

Elizabeth Aston

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

45.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

49.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

50.

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