Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rand, Ayn

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Solon

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

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

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

10.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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Didion, Joan

13.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

14.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

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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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

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, 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

23.

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

Astor, John Jacob

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mohammed

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

30.

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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

44.

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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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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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

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

Lucretius

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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