Motivational Quotes

Wealth

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Wealth

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Bogart, Humphrey

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lucretius

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

10.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Wicker, John

12.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

13.

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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.

24.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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How much money is enough?

26.

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 is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

34.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.