Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

How much money is enough?

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Solon

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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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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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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

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

Proverb

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Proverb, American

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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

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

Lucretius

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rand, Ayn

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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