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

How much money is enough?

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

Ovid

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

Proverb

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, American

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

Socrates

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

Dietrich, Marlene

10.

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

11.

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

Elizabeth Aston

12.

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

Wicker, John

13.

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

Venning, R.

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Lippett, John P.

17.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

18.

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

Rand, Ayn

19.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

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

21.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

22.

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

Rex Stout

23.

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

24.

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

Astor, John Jacob

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

Chilo

27.

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

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

36.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

41.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

42.

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

Seneca

43.

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

44.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

46.

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

Seneca

47.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Roosevelt, Theodore

49.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

50.

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

Rodman, Frances