Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Wicker, John

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

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

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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How much money is enough?

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

Seneca

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Rex Stout

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

Proverb

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Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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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)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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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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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