Motivational Quotes

Wealth

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wealth

How much money is enough?

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

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

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

10.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

11.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ovid

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Seneca

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

Mohammed

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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

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

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

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

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Young, Andrew

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

Solon

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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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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