Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Wealth

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Rodman, Frances

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Astor, John Jacob

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Socrates

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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.

15.

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

Wicker, John

16.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

18.

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

Billings, Josh

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.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

22.

How much money is enough?

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Mohammed

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

33.

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

Rand, Ayn

34.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

35.

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

36.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

38.

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

Chilo

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Lippett, John P.

42.

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

Ovid

43.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

47.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

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

49.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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