Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Where there are friends there is wealth.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Ovid

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Lippett, John P.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

12.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

13.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

14.

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

Chilo

15.

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

Astor, John Jacob

16.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

Elizabeth Aston

18.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

19.

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

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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

21.

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

22.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

23.

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

Solon

24.

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

Venning, R.

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

27.

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

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

Proverb, American

30.

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

31.

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

Benjamin Franklin

32.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

33.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Wicker, John

39.

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

Wall Street Journal

40.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

41.

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

Proverb, French

42.

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

Lucretius

43.

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

Rodman, Frances

44.

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

45.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

47.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.