Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Proverb, Italian

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rex Stout

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

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

11.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Solon

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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

How much money is enough?

19.

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

Seneca

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

Lucretius

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

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

Mohammed

27.

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

33.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

36.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

37.

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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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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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

40.

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

Lippett, John P.

41.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.