Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Wall Street Journal

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

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

12.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

13.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

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

15.

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

Astor, John Jacob

16.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Mizner, Wilson

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

27.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

29.

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

30.

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

Rex Stout

31.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

34.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Billings, Josh

38.

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

Proverb, American

39.

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

40.

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

Venning, R.

41.

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

Socrates

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

44.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

47.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

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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

49.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rockefeller, John D.