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

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Ovid

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

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

10.

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

Wicker, John

11.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

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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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bible

19.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

22.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

24.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

28.

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

29.

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

Astor, John Jacob

30.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.

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

Socrates

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Wall Street Journal

41.

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

Seneca

42.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

43.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

49.

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

Proverb

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin