Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Mohammed

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

Seneca

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Carnegie, Andrew

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

11.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

12.

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

Rand, Ayn

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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

16.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

27.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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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

34.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Solon

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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 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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 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

47.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Proverb, Yiddish