Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wicker, John

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Solon

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Seneca

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Proverb, American

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Proverb, Italian

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

23.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Ovid

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Rand, Ayn

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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