Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Wicker, John

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

Benjamin Franklin

10.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

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

12.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

Rex Stout

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

26.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

27.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

33.

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

Socrates

34.

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

Wall Street Journal

38.

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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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

40.

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

Solon

41.

How much money is enough?

42.

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

43.

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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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 product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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

Lucretius

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

Seneca

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques