Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Wicker, John

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

How much money is enough?

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

Lippett, John P.

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

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

14.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

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

Rand, Ayn

16.

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

17.

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

Astor, John Jacob

18.

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

Proverb, French

19.

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

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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

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

24.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

25.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Chilo

28.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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.

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

Benjamin Franklin

31.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Solon

33.

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

Venning, R.

34.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

36.

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

Mohammed

37.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rivarol, Antoine

39.

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

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

Lucretius

42.

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

43.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

44.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Where there are friends there is wealth.