Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Wealth

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lippett, John P.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Chilo

13.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Seneca

19.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

20.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Astor, John Jacob

27.

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

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Mohammed

30.

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

Elizabeth Aston

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

36.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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.

How much money is enough?

39.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

40.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

43.

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

Proverb, American

44.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

46.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

47.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

48.

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.

49.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David