Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Chilo

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb

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

Ovid

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Seneca

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Astor, John Jacob

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How much money is enough?

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lippett, John P.

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Dietrich, Marlene

44.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

46.

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

Lucretius

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