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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Ovid

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

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lucretius

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Mizner, Wilson

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How much money is enough?

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

35.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lippett, John P.

37.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Proverb

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Seneca

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