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

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

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

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

Socrates

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lucretius

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

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chilo

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dietrich, Marlene

15.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

16.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Solon

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mizner, Wilson

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How much money is enough?

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Seneca

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