Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Wealth

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rand, Ayn

10.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

18.

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]

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Mohammed

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

Lucretius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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.