Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Socrates

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

Ovid

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

Rodman, Frances

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Proverb

12.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

13.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

14.

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

15.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

22.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

23.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

24.

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

Wicker, John

25.

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

Chilo

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Rex Stout

29.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

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

Proverb, Italian

31.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

32.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

36.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

37.

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

Seneca

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

43.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

48.

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

49.

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

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