Motivational Quotes

Riches

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

- Diogenes of Sinope

Best Quotes about Riches

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Marx, Karl

It is better to live rich, than to die rich.

Johnson, Samuel

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Diogenes of Sinope

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community --the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.

Carnegie, Andrew

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Lao-Tzu

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Nightingale, Earl

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Her voice is full of money.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

11.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20]

Bible

13.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Graham, Billy

14.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Swift, Jonathan

15.

Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.

Morris, William

17.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Seneca

18.

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Vaneigem, Raoul

20.

To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous

Wayland, H. L.

21.

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.

Swid, Stephen

22.

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

23.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Aleichem, Sholom

24.

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

Munro, Hector Hugh

25.

The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes.

Vries, Peter De

26.

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

Nash, Ogden

27.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.

Mother Teresa

33.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

35.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it!

Bernanos, Georges

37.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

Think and grow rich.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

Luther, Martin

40.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

He who is contented is rich.

Lao-Tzu

42.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Bacon, Francis

43.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

44.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Moliere

45.

A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast.

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth

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A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.

Lapham, Lewis H.

47.

Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

Solomon

48.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Forbes, B. C.

49.

The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Mother Teresa