Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

2.

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

3.

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

Lippett, John P.

4.

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

Socrates

5.

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

6.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

7.

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.

8.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

9.

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

10.

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

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

14.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

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

Rodman, Frances

16.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

17.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

18.

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

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Solon

22.

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

Mohammed

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

26.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

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

Mizner, Wilson

32.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

33.

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

Ovid

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

36.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

37.

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

38.

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

Rand, Ayn

39.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

40.

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

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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