Motivational Quotes

Wealth

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wealth

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb

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

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

Ovid

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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

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How much money is enough?

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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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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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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]

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