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

1.

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

Proverb, American

2.

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

Chilo

3.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

4.

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

Proverb

5.

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

6.

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

Seneca

7.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

8.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Mizner, Wilson

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Mohammed

14.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

15.

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

16.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

17.

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

18.

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

Rodman, Frances

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

21.

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

Lippett, John P.

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

24.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

How much money is enough?

28.

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

29.

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

Rex Stout

30.

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

Astor, John Jacob

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

35.

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

36.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

37.

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

Benjamin Franklin

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

41.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

No just person ever became quickly rich.