Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Wealth

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chilo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

14.

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

Rand, Ayn

15.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

16.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

17.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

18.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

21.

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

Mohammed

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Elizabeth Aston

25.

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

26.

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

Venning, R.

27.

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.

28.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

Wicker, John

30.

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

Socrates

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Rex Stout

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Italian

40.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Lucretius

44.

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

45.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

46.

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

47.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

48.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

49.

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

50.

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

Rodman, Frances