Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

4.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

5.

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

Billings, Josh

6.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

7.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

8.

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

9.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

11.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

12.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

13.

How much money is enough?

14.

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

Mizner, Wilson

15.

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

Socrates

16.

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

Rex Stout

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.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Seneca

20.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

21.

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.

22.

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

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.

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

25.

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

Venning, R.

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

Mohammed

31.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

32.

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

33.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

36.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

39.

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

40.

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

Astor, John Jacob

41.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

42.

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

Lucretius

43.

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

44.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

Proverb, French

46.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

47.

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