Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Mohammed

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

10.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Didion, Joan

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.

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

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rand, Ayn

18.

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

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

Proverb, French

22.

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

Mizner, Wilson

24.

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

Lippett, John P.

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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

26.

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

Socrates

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

Rex Stout

30.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

31.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

32.

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

Astor, John Jacob

33.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

35.

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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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.

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

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

42.

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

Rodman, Frances

43.

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

Elizabeth Aston

44.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

45.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

46.

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

Ovid

47.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

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

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.

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

Proverb