Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

Socrates

2.

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

Rand, Ayn

3.

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

4.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

5.

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

6.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

7.

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

8.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

9.

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.

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

Astor, John Jacob

11.

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

Mizner, Wilson

12.

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.

13.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

14.

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

Lucretius

15.

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

Proverb, French

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Italian

18.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

19.

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

20.

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

Lippett, John P.

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Mohammed

23.

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

24.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

25.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

26.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

33.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

34.

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

Venning, R.

35.

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

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

Elizabeth Aston

39.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

41.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

44.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

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

46.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

50.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens