Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Rex Stout

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

Solon

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Lucretius

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

Ovid

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Proverb

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.