Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Wicker, John

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

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The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Didion, Joan

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Rex Stout

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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

32.

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

Proverb

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Astor, John Jacob

43.

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

Proverb

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Seneca

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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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