Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Rex Stout

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

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Ruskin, John

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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

11.

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.

12.

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 maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Peter, Laurence J.

15.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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How much money is enough?

17.

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

Seneca

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Lucretius

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

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, American

28.

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

Solon

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

Mohammed

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

34.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

38.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

41.

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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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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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

46.

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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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