Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb

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

Socrates

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

Rodman, Frances

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Seneca

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rockefeller, John D.

10.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

20.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

21.

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

Lucretius

22.

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

Seneca

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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

27.

How much money is enough?

28.

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

Proverb, American

29.

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

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

32.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

33.

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

Mohammed

34.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

35.

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

36.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

45.

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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish