Oscar Wilde Quotes

20 quotes from Oscar Wilde on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets..
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
Time is a waste of money.
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
To become a work of art is the object of living.
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
The Noblest form of Affection.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.
What fire does not destroy, it hardens.