Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Wall Street Journal

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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

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

Socrates

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

17.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

20.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

21.

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

Proverb

22.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

23.

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

Lippett, John P.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

27.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

28.

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

29.

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

Wicker, John

30.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Mohammed

32.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Mizner, Wilson

35.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

39.

How much money is enough?

40.

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

Bacon, Francis

41.

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

Proverb, French

42.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

44.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

47.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin