Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Seneca

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

11.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

12.

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

Ovid

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

Proverb

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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

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How much money is enough?

19.

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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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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

Socrates

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, American

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

30.

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

45.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb, Italian

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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