Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

How much money is enough?

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

13.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

16.

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

Rex Stout

17.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

20.

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

Socrates

21.

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

22.

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

Wall Street Journal

23.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

24.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

25.

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

Elizabeth Aston

26.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

27.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

29.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Wicker, John

32.

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

33.

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

Benjamin Franklin

34.

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

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, French

46.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

47.

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

Lucretius

48.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

49.

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

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

Mizner, Wilson