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

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Ovid

12.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

16.

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

Wall Street Journal

17.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

20.

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

Elizabeth Aston

21.

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

Chilo

22.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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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.

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

28.

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

Billings, Josh

30.

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

31.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

33.

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

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Rex Stout

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

Wicker, John

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

Mizner, Wilson

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

42.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

44.

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

45.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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