Motivational Quotes

Wealth

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

- Bogart, Humphrey

Best Quotes about Wealth

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Didion, Joan

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Proverb

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.

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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

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This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Astor, John Jacob

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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Taylor, Jeremy

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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Mohammed

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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Defoe, Daniel

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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon

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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

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The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Budgell, Eustace

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb, American

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Wilde, Oscar

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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Butler, Samuel

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

40.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa

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Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

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There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Rockefeller, John D.

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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

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Controlled time is our true wealth.