Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Dietrich, Marlene

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Seneca

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lucretius

10.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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 is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, American

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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.

28.

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

Proverb

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Seneca

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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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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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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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 a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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

Rex Stout

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

Socrates

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

43.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Bible

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

47.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

49.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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