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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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

Mohammed

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

How much money is enough?

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Ovid

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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 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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Proverb

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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

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Italian

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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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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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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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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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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