Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rex Stout

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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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

15.

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

Wicker, John

16.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Socrates

18.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Ovid

25.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

27.

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

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

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

Mohammed

31.

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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.

33.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

35.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

40.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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