Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Wicker, John

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

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Rex Stout

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Seneca

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Lucretius

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, American

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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