Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Billings, Josh

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Benjamin Franklin

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Rand, Ayn

10.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

14.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

15.

How much money is enough?

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Elizabeth Aston

21.

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

Ovid

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

23.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

24.

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

Rex Stout

25.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

29.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Lucretius

33.

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

Chilo

34.

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

Solon

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

38.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

39.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

41.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Astor, John Jacob

45.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

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

47.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.