Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

10.

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

11.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Rex Stout

13.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

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

Rodman, Frances

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 rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

17.

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

Mizner, Wilson

18.

How much money is enough?

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

23.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

24.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

25.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

26.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

32.

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

33.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

Chilo

36.

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

Billings, Josh

37.

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

Elizabeth Aston

38.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

39.

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

Mohammed

40.

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

Rand, Ayn

41.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

43.

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

44.

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

Solon

45.

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

Wall Street Journal

46.

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

Seneca

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

49.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, American