Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

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.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, American

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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]

Bible

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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 the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Lucretius

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

Cervantes, Miguel 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 acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Seneca

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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

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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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 so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.