Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Ovid

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

12.

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

Mizner, Wilson

20.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

21.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

22.

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

Rand, Ayn

23.

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

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Solon

26.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

27.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

31.

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

Astor, John Jacob

32.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Benjamin Franklin

35.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

36.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

38.

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

Elizabeth Aston

39.

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

Chilo

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

Lucretius

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

44.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, Yiddish