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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Seneca

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Lucretius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Wicker, 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 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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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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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Proverb

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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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Channing, William Henry

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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

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

Proverb, American

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

Mohammed

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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.