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

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

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

18.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Solon

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Wall Street Journal

23.

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

Chilo

24.

How much money is enough?

25.

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

26.

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

Ovid

27.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

29.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Lippett, John P.

31.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Socrates

34.

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

35.

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

Lucretius

36.

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

39.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

Elizabeth Aston

41.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

42.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

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

Seneca

44.

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.

45.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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