Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Lippett, John P.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Mohammed

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Bible

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Roosevelt, Theodore

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Proverb, Italian

13.

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb, American

14.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

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

16.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

17.

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

Ovid

18.

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

19.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

24.

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

Socrates

25.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Lucretius

27.

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

Chilo

28.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

35.

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

36.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

37.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

38.

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

39.

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

Astor, John Jacob

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.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

45.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

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

47.

How much money is enough?

48.

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

49.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.