Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

2.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

3.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

4.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

6.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

7.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

11.

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

12.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

13.

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

Venning, R.

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Mizner, Wilson

16.

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

17.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

18.

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

Elizabeth Aston

19.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

20.

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

21.

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

Socrates

22.

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

Mohammed

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, American

25.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Rand, Ayn

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

32.

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

33.

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

Benjamin Franklin

34.

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

35.

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

Billings, Josh

36.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

37.

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

38.

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

Rex Stout

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Seneca

44.

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

45.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

46.

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

Lucretius

47.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

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

50.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis