Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lucretius

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wicker, John

10.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Proverb, American

15.

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Solon

17.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

18.

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

Benjamin Franklin

19.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Rockefeller, John D.

23.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

38.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Mohammed

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

42.

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

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

Rex Stout

45.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Socrates

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

Wall Street Journal