Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Wealth

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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

Proverb

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

15.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lucretius

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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

18.

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

19.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Seneca

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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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I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

23.

How much money is enough?

24.

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

25.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

26.

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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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ovid

35.

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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

40.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

41.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Bacon, Francis

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No just person ever became quickly rich.