Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wealth

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Mizner, Wilson

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

12.

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

Wicker, John

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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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 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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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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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Solon

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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]

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