Are you looking for inspiration about being wealthy?
Here are 100 quotes about wealth from a range of famous people, including writers, philosophers, politicians, and business figures:
- “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” โ Epictetus
- “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” โ Unknown
- “Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” โ P.T. Barnum
- “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” โ Erich Fromm
- “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” โ Henry David Thoreau
- “The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.” โ William R. Alger
- “Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.” โ Epicurus
- “No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.” โ Plato
- “Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.” โ Ronald Reagan
- “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.” โ Chris Rock
- “If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.” โ John D. Rockefeller
- “The first wealth is health.” โ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.” โ Warren Buffett
- “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” โ Jonathan Swift
- “Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” โ Benjamin Franklin
- “Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.” โ P.T Barnum
- “To be rich is not what you have in your bank account, but what you have in your heart.” โ Unknown
- “Success is not just about what you accomplish in your life; itโs about what you inspire others to do.” โ Unknown
- “Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.” โ Christopher Rice
- “Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.” โ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?” โ John D. Rockefeller
- “It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” โ Robert Kiyosaki
- “When I had money everyone called me brother.” โ Polish proverb
- “Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.” โ Margaret Bonnano
- “I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” โ Pablo Picasso
- “Money is a great servant but a bad master.” โ Francis Bacon
- “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” โ Coco Chanel
- “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” โ Mark Twain
- “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” โ Zig Ziglar
- “Do not be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” โ Charles Richards
- “The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.” โ Anonymous
- “It is better to live rich than to die rich.” โ Samuel Johnson
- “Patience is the key to wealth.” โ African Proverb
- “The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” โ Henry Ford
- “Money is a mechanism for control.” โ David Korten
- “Money often costs too much.” โ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.” โ Kin Hubbard
- “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” โ John Locke
- “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” โ Winston Churchill
- “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” โ Albert Einstein
- “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” โ Will Rogers
- “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” โ Yogi Berra
- “The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.” โ Proverb
- “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” โ Benjamin Franklin
- “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” โ Jim Rohn
- “Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.” โ Bob Marley
- “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.” โ Barack Obama
- “Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” โ Ayn Rand
- “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” โ Plato
- “If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.” โ Proverb
- “Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” โ Henry Ford
- “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” โ Nelson Mandela
- “I am not impressed by money, social status or job title. I’m impressed by the way someone treats other human beings.” โ Unknown
- “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” โ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “The real measure of wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” โ Unknown
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” โ Jim Rohn
- “Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.” โ Robert Heinlein
- “I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.” โ Marilyn Monroe
- “The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.” โ Coco Chanel
- “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” โ George Lorimer
- “Money can feed the body. Education feeds the mind.” โ Christine Gregoire
- “Money is the wise man’s religion.” โ Euripides
- “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” โ Henry David Thoreau
- “Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.” โ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.” โ Benjamin Franklin
- “There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.” โ Calvin Coolidge
- “Wealth often distracts us with foolish pleasures.” โ Seneca
- “Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.” โ Barack Obama
- “Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more.” โ Jack Benny
- “Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.” โ Benjamin Franklin
- “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world.” โ Muhammad
- “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” โ Benjamin Franklin
- “It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.” โ Lucretius
- “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” โ Benjamin Franklin
- “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” โ Henry David Thoreau
- “The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.” โ H. L. Mencken
- “He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.” โ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” โ Voltaire
- “What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.” โ Seneca
- “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” โ Joe Biden
- “Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money canโt buy.” โ Haruki Murakami
- “The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” โ Marcus Aurelius
- “The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.” โ Ayn Rand
- “If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” โ Edmund Burke
- “Lack of money is the root of all evil.” โ George Bernard Shaw
- “Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” โ Aristotle
- “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” โ Warren Buffett
- “If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.” โ Vicki Robin
- “Never spend your money before you have earned it.” โ Thomas Jefferson
- “The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.” โ Evan Esar
- “When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.” โ Russian Proverb
- “The art is not making money, but keeping it.” โ Proverb
- “A good reputation is more valuable than money.” โ Publilius Syrus
- “It’s easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.” โ Craig Ferguson
- “Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.” โ J. Paul Getty
- “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” โ Mark Twain
- “The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.” โ Charles M. Schwab
- “Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.” โ Warren Buffett
- “Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.” โ Richard Ney
- “Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” โ Bo Derek
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