Motivational Quotes

Wealth

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

- Lippett, John P.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Spanish

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Lucretius

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Socrates

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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

27.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Mohammed

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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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Astor, John Jacob

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