Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lucretius

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

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Bogart, Humphrey

10.

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

11.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Rex Stout

16.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

22.

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

23.

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

Rohn, Jim

24.

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

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

27.

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

Bible

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Astor, John Jacob

32.

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

33.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

Seneca

36.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

37.

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

Proverb, French

38.

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

Solon

39.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

40.

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

Mizner, Wilson

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

43.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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

45.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

46.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

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

48.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Socrates