Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Chilo

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

Proverb, Spanish

2.

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

Seneca

3.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

4.

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

Bacon, Francis

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Elizabeth Aston

8.

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

Wicker, John

9.

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

Proverb, French

10.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Chilo

14.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

15.

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

16.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

17.

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

Lippett, John P.

18.

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

Mizner, Wilson

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

26.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

30.

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

Socrates

31.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Lucretius

33.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

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

Benjamin Franklin

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

40.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

41.

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

Proverb

42.

How much money is enough?

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

47.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

48.

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

Billings, Josh