Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Wealth

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

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

15.

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb

25.

How much money is enough?

26.

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

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

33.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

34.

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

35.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

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

Benjamin Franklin

37.

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

Mizner, Wilson

38.

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.

39.

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

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.

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

43.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

44.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

45.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von