Guest Article - Top 40 Wealth Quotes

What does wealth mean to you? Use these quotes from famous people to think about what it means to be wealthy.

1. "Man was born to be rich, or inevitably to grow rich, through the use of his faculties." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. "Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind." - Jerry Gillies

3. "Wealth is the accumulation of possibilities." - Writer in Mexico

4. "There is wealth within the sound of your voice." - Russell Conwell

5. "Wealth comes from knowing what others do not know." - Aristotle Onasis

6. "Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others." - Sir John Templeton

7. "...Every person who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow - and inspires them to do so." - Wallace D. Wattles

8. "The great road to wealth is to learn useful facts." - M.R. Kopmeyer

9. "Money is for making things happen." - Richard Branson

10. "When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it." - Catherine Ponder

11. "No one can become rich without enriching others. Anyone who adds to prosperity must prosper in turn." - G. Alexander Orndorff

12. "If you are not as wealthy as you like, there is something you don't know." - David Wood

13. "Priorities lead to prosperity." - Michelle Singletary

14. "Ideas will be the major source of new wealth." - Brian Tracy

15. "Study well what the billionaire does. It may make you a millionaire." - John Emmerling

16. "Wealth is largely a result of habit." - John Jacob Astor

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

18. "Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration." - Jim Rohn

19. "Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow." - Thorton Wilder

20. "The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality." - Benjamin Franklin

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

22. "Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible." - George Clason

23. "The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things.. it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future." - Steve Forbes

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

25. "Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that "advantage" human life." - Buckminster Fuller

26. "That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise." - Abraham Lincoln

27. "The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket." - Andrew Carnegie

28. "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn

29. "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." - Andrew Young

30. "It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. "Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand." - Robert Allen

32. "Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth." - Peter Drucker

33. "Wealth flows from energy and ideas." - William Feather

34. "If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be." - Robert Collier

35. "Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. "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

37. "Seek wealth, it's good". - Ivan Boesky

38. "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." - 3 John 1:2

39. "Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making the money."- John Wicker

40. "Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth." - Proverbs 10:4

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