Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Dietrich, Marlene

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Seneca

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Solon

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

Bogart, Humphrey

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wicker, John

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lucretius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

21.

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

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

Proverb, American

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Peter, Laurence J.

38.

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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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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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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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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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.