Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Wealth

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Seneca

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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

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

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

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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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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 fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

Seneca

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How much money is enough?

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

Solon

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

Rodman, Frances

25.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Mohammed

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Astor, John Jacob

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Proverb

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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.