Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Socrates

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Mohammed

12.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

13.

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

Rodman, Frances

14.

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

15.

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Rand, Ayn

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

19.

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

20.

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

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

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

Venning, R.

23.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

27.

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

Benjamin Franklin

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

30.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Bible

34.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

35.

How much money is enough?

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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

Wicker, John

40.

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

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

Proverb, French

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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

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

Rex Stout

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel