Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

4.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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

6.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

7.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Ovid

9.

How much money is enough?

10.

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

Astor, John Jacob

11.

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

Lucretius

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

15.

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

Lippett, John P.

16.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

17.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

18.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Rand, Ayn

20.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

Wicker, John

23.

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

Rex Stout

24.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Solon

26.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

Mizner, Wilson

34.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

37.

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

Benjamin Franklin

38.

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

Socrates

39.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

43.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

44.

He that is rich is wise.