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

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rex Stout

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

Astor, John Jacob

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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Socrates

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Chilo

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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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

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

37.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

38.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

39.

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

Proverb, American

40.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lucretius

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles