Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

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

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Socrates

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Solon

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

Lucretius

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

Seneca

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lippett, John P.

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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How much money is enough?

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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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