Looking for the best wealth quotes? These sayings about money, wealth, possessions, capitalism, prosperity, and poverty will inspire you. The planet is full of people chasing fast money and wealth, particularly in this era of IT and immediate gratification. Below are inspiring quotes about wealth and words of wisdom from some of history’s greatest minds and accomplishes that motivate the heart and mind towards real wealth and happiness.
- “Remember that the only purpose of money is to get you what you want, so think hard about what you value and put it above money.” Ray Dalio
Let these wealth quotes give you thoughts about what it means to be wealthy. Having an abundance of love, or is it an abundance of cash or riches or it is health or is it a rare treasure.
Wealth Quotes
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- “Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.” ~ Will Rogers
- “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” ~ Jonathan Swift
- “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ~ SiraNivi
- “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
- “Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Motivational quotes about wealth and money sayings
1. “To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.” — Herbert Read
2. “Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.” — Malorie Blackman
3. “Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people’s dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president.” — Paul Craig Roberts
4. “Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we’re guided by these laws… When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that’s a bastardized rendering of a faith.” — Sufjan Stevens
5. “I’m a wealth creator. I’m not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don’t spend money like other billionaires. I’m probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.” — John Caudwell
6. “I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My charity helps children directly. The charitable foundation will receive most of my legacy when I die.” — John Caudwell
7. “My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I’m the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.” — Michael Lee-Chin
8. “I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.” — Sean Parker
9. “The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, ‘Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.’” — Martin O’Malley
10. “I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.” — Park Geun-hye
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11. “Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their ‘Giving Pledge,’ where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better – to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.” — Mark Skousen
12. “Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don’t take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don’t.” — Shari Arison
13. “The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that’s a whole different thing than reading about it in the history books. You’re able to really personalize it.” — Jurnee Smollett-Bell
14. “I personally think that people who are inheriting the wealth must have an agreement on how that wealth will flow from generation to generation, how they would like to spend it, and have similar philosophies around philanthropy to ensure continuity and scaling up.” — Roshni Nadar
15. “In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households’ estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.” — Edmund Phelps
16. “’Egalitarians’ who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.” — Edmund Phelps
17. “An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge ‘social wealth’ that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.” — Edmund Phelps
18. “I have three lovely children. They are beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. I’m most proud of them. I love them so much that I will never want to burden them with a large amount of inherited wealth.” — Li Lu
19. “To stimulate the economy, we need to give entrepreneurs the means to create wealth.” — Maxime Bernier
20. “I am Left-wing. I am a socialist. I believe in sharing wealth. There’s no two ways about it.” — Jess Phillips
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21. “In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That’s a resource nearly without limit.” — Ramez Naam
22. “A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.” — Nouriel Roubini
23. “Family business management is a discipline that has evolved from an art into a science. The market for this line of education has been created by the growing recognition of family-run companies that shareholders are demanding greater clarity on issues ranging from succession to the management of wealth and the distribution of profits.” — Sanjaya Baru
24. “The structural changes of globalization and automation that has created concentrated wealth among some people who have had the right skills and the right opportunities has also created extraordinary disruption and havoc among the American middle-class.” — Ro Khanna
25. “It’s so hard to shoot wealth. It doesn’t show up on film.” — Zal Batmanglij
26. “Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that’s where wealth gets created.” — Mark V. Hurd
27. “The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.” — Joe Lonsdale
28. “Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.” — John Podhoretz
29. “It’s hard to improve our schools. It’s hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class wages. But it might be easier to lower middle-class costs by building more housing.” — Glenn Kelman
30. “Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.” — Peter Maurer
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31. “College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.” — Gordon Gee
32. “The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.” — Sepp Blatter
33. “If we could figure out the big economic question – which really is how do we get wealth out of the coasts and into the industrial Midwest and start creating real jobs by the hundreds, if not by the thousands – in places like I represent, that’s a game changer for me.” — Tim Ryan
34. “Maybe this is my left-wing conspiracy theory, but the right has re-branded itself as kind of the everyman party: Who’s the person you’d rather have a beer with? The Republican Party, even though it’s a party of incredible wealth and corporate interests, has hidden behind this everyman quality.” — Morgan Neville
35. “We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.” — Frances Wright
36. “At Translation, we pride ourselves on being one of the most diverse agencies in the industry – and with that diversity comes a wealth of different talents and perspectives. The onus is on us to empower our employees to use those considerable talents to create real systemic change.” — Steve Stoute
37. “I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.” — Nandan Nilekani
38. “One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.” — Adam Davidson
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Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.Chris Rock · Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau
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