Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

Proverb, Italian

2.

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

Rex Stout

3.

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

Proverb

4.

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

5.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

6.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

7.

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

8.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

11.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

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

15.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Elizabeth Aston

17.

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

18.

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

19.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

21.

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

Astor, John Jacob

22.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Defoe, Daniel

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

25.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

26.

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

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

30.

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

31.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

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

Chilo

34.

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

Socrates

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

36.

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

Mizner, Wilson

37.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

38.

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

Proverb

39.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

40.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

46.

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

47.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

48.

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

Rand, Ayn

49.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

50.

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