Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rivarol, Antoine

10.

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

Wall Street Journal

11.

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

Rand, Ayn

12.

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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

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 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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

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

Proverb, Italian

18.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

20.

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

Lippett, John P.

21.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

How much money is enough?

24.

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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

26.

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

Socrates

27.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, French

30.

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

Chilo

31.

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

Benjamin Franklin

33.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

34.

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

Astor, John Jacob

35.

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

Proverb

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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wicker, John

43.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, American

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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