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

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Solon

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

Seneca

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

Ovid

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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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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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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 the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Wicker, John

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

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Astor, John Jacob

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