Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Venning, R.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Proverb

10.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

11.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

12.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Rand, Ayn

15.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

16.

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

17.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Wicker, John

20.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Wall Street Journal

22.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

24.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

25.

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

Mohammed

26.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

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

Lippett, John P.

28.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

29.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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.

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

Seneca

32.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

33.

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

34.

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

Chilo

35.

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

36.

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

Seneca

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

38.

How much money is enough?

39.

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

40.

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

Rex Stout

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

44.

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

45.

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

Rodman, Frances

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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