Motivational Quotes

Wealth

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wealth

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Wall Street Journal

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

10.

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

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

16.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

17.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

20.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

21.

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

22.

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

Elizabeth Aston

27.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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

29.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

30.

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

Wicker, John

32.

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

Mohammed

33.

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

Lucretius

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

45.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

46.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Astor, John Jacob

48.

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

Rex Stout

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

Bogart, Humphrey