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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

How much money is enough?

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

13.

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

Mohammed

14.

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

15.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

20.

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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

23.

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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

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

Wicker, John

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

Socrates

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

Proverb

28.

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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

30.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

33.

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

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

35.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

36.

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

Ovid

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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

38.

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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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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 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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

44.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Rohn, Jim

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.