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

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, American

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

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

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

Seneca

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Rohn, Jim

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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

Rex Stout

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

Mohammed

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Solon

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

Socrates

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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