These wealth quotes will inspire you. Wealth is a large amount of money and possessions or plentiful supplies of a particular resource.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging wealth quotes, wealth sayings, and wealth proverbs.
Best Wealth Quotes
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.” ~ Will Rogers
- “Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.” ~ Seneca the Younger
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“You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.” ~ Garth Brooks
- “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” ~ Doris Day
- “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” ~ Billy Graham
- “It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” ~ Bob Marley
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“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” ~ Democritus , Happiness and wealth quotes
- “If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” ~ Henry Ford
- “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
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“All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money.” ~ Robert Collier
- “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.” ~ Roger Wicker
- “Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.” ~ Rumi
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“Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.” ~ Lester Roloff
- “That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few and not the many.” ~ Barack Obama , Building wealth quotes
- “Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.” ~ Edmund Burke
- “Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.” ~ Adam Smith
- “No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.” ~ Mark Twain
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“Riches either serve or govern the possessor.” ~ Horace
- “The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue, but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.” ~ Plato
- “But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.” ~ Will Carleton
- “In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” ~ Confucius
- “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” ~ Louis D. Brandeis
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“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?'” ~ Don Marquis
- “No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.” ~ Henry George
- “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “All wealth is the product of labor.” ~ John Locke
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“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” ~ Gautama Buddha , Health and wealth quotes
- “The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building values of the privation of the poor.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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“He who has wealth has friends.” ~ Chanakya
- “Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” ~ Bernard Meltzer
- “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.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
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“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.” ~ Henry Ford
- “Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- “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 listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common – this is my symphony.” ~ William Ellery Channing
- “There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.” ~ John Armstrong
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“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.” ~ Homer
- “Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.” ~ Desiderius Erasmus
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“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.” ~ Herbert Croly
- “It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.” ~ George S. Clason
- “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” ~ Woody Allen
- “When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.” ~ Euripides
