Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

3.

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

4.

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

Socrates

5.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

6.

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

Seneca

7.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

9.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

12.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Mizner, Wilson

18.

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

19.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

20.

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

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

23.

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

Lippett, John P.

24.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

25.

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

Mohammed

26.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

36.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

37.

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

Rand, Ayn

38.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

40.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

41.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Solon

43.

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

44.

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

Rodman, Frances

45.

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

Wicker, John

46.

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

47.

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