Famous Quotes About Wealth & Money

Wealth is not his that has it but his that enjoys it. - Ben Franklin

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. - Ben Franklin

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. - Henry David Thoreau

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

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. in your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde

Wealth is nothing more than a refusal to listen to broke people...and refusal to talk their language...and refusal to end up the refuse life. - Doug Firebaugh

Simple living is living in a way that is outwardly simple and inwardly rich. - Duane Elgin

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. - Henry Ford

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. - Henry Ford

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. - Warren Buffett

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. - Brian Tracy

Success is not to be measured by how much material wealth is possessed, but whether you are able to create at will what you need. - Paramhansa Yogananda

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. - unknown

Possessions are a gift from God. They are not inherently evil, nor are possessions irrelevant to God -- if they were, then why the commandment, "Thou shalt not steal?" - Dr. Laura Schlessinger

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. - Bill Gates

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. - Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. - Bill Gates

Patience is a key element of success. - Bill Gates

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. - Bill Gates

Buy when there's blood in the streets; even if the blood is your own. - Mayer Amschel Rothschild

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy. - Garth Brooks

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. - Ernest Hemingway

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. - Soren Kierkegaard

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben

There's so much money out there looking for a home. - Sam Zell (Founder, Equity Group Investments)

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecham


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