Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Proverb

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

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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Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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

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

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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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, 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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Mohammed

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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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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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