Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Astor, John Jacob

Best Quotes about Wealth

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

Lucretius

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

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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 after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Rand, Ayn

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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Ruskin, John

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I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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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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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.

Young, Andrew

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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How much money is enough?

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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

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Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Mohammed

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

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You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.

Maus, Cynthia Pearl

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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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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