Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Lucretius

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

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

Wicker, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Melbourne, Lord

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rand, Ayn

11.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Seneca

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Seneca

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rohn, Jim

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Proverb, American

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

31.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

44.

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

Ovid

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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