Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Astor, John Jacob

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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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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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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Peter, Laurence J.

29.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Solon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

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

Rand, Ayn

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How much money is enough?

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.