Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Chilo

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

10.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

12.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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

Benjamin Franklin

15.

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

Wall Street Journal

16.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Proverb, American

26.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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How much money is enough?

29.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Solon

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

Lippett, John P.

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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