Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, Spanish

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

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

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Ovid

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

Chilo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Proverb, French

12.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

13.

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

Benjamin Franklin

14.

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

Proverb, American

15.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb, Italian

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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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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 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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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Lucretius

33.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Solon

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

Rand, Ayn

41.

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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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

44.

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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