Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Socrates

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chilo

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb

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

Wicker, John

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Rex Stout

13.

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

14.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

15.

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

16.

How much money is enough?

17.

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

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.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Rohn, Jim

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

32.

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

Elizabeth Aston

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

38.

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

39.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Rand, Ayn

43.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

44.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

45.

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

46.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

47.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

48.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

49.

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

50.

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