Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rand, Ayn

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Solon

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, French

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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 rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Wicker, John

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

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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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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Socrates

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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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]

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