Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Controlled time is our true wealth.

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Proverb

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

Benjamin Franklin

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.

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

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

Rex Stout

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Mohammed

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

15.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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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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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 fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, American

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

Seneca

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

Wicker, John

27.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Solon

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A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Astor, John Jacob

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

Proverb, Spanish

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Italian

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

43.

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Lucretius

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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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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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