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 the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

How much money is enough?

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Seneca

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

Solon

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

Bible

12.

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

Rex Stout

13.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

17.

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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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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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

28.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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

39.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

41.

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 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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, American

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis