Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

- Peguy, Charles

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Socrates

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

Chilo

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

Rivarol, Antoine

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Wicker, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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

Rex Stout

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

Proverb

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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.