Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Socrates

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

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

Proverb

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Solon

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

10.

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

11.

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

Lucretius

12.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

13.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

24.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

25.

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.

26.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

27.

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

Astor, John Jacob

28.

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

Proverb, American

29.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

Wall Street Journal

31.

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

Wicker, John

33.

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

Seneca

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

38.

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

Venning, R.

39.

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

Elizabeth Aston

40.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, French

43.

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

44.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

46.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Billings, Josh

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis