Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Seneca

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

17.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

18.

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

Wicker, John

19.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Mohammed

20.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

21.

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

Chilo

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Astor, John Jacob

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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

Ovid

28.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

29.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

30.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

31.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

32.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

33.

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

Elizabeth Aston

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Socrates

36.

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

Lucretius

37.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

39.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

41.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

44.

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

Venning, R.

45.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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