Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Mizner, Wilson

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rockefeller, John D.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Solon

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Astor, John Jacob

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lucretius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Mohammed

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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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Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

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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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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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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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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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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 maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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