Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rex Stout

Best Quotes about Wealth

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

How much money is enough?

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Astor, John Jacob

10.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Proverb, American

13.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

14.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

22.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Rodman, Frances

28.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

31.

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

Wall Street Journal

32.

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

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

Venning, R.

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Lucretius

37.

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.

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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

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

40.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

41.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

42.

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

43.

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

Seneca

44.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

45.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Socrates

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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

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

Mizner, Wilson

50.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius