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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

34.

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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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