Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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

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

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

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Solon

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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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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Mohammed

20.

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

Wall Street Journal

21.

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 does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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How much money is enough?

25.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Dietrich, Marlene

32.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rivarol, Antoine

36.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Lucretius

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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wicker, John

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Socrates