Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

How much money is enough?

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

10.

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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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

19.

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

Elizabeth Aston

20.

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

Lucretius

21.

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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Seneca

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

Ovid

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

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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Rex Stout

38.

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

39.

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 fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

41.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

42.

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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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

46.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von