Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Wicker, John

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

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Chilo

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Rivarol, Antoine

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

15.

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

Mizner, Wilson

16.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Astor, John Jacob

20.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rohn, Jim

24.

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

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Rand, Ayn

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

34.

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

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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

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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

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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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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

39.

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

Wall Street Journal

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

Solon

43.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mohammed

48.

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

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