Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

Lippett, John P.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mohammed

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

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 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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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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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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How much money is enough?

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Benjamin Franklin

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Rohn, Jim

31.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Bible

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Seneca

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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

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

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Chilo

43.

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

Proverb, Italian

44.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

48.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius