Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

- Peguy, Charles

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

Proverb

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

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

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

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Mohammed

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How much money is enough?

13.

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

Seneca

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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 the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Proverb

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Erasmus, Desiderius

31.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Bible

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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

35.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rex Stout

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

Peter, Laurence J.

44.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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