Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Socrates

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

Lucretius

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb

16.

You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.

Maus, Cynthia Pearl

17.

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

Wicker, John

18.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

19.

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

Rodman, Frances

20.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

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

Benjamin Franklin

27.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

31.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

Chilo

34.

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

35.

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

Elizabeth Aston

36.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

38.

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

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Astor, John Jacob

41.

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

42.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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.

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

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

46.

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

47.

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

Mohammed

48.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

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

Mizner, Wilson

50.

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