Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Wealth

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Solon

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

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

Seneca

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Socrates

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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

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

Proverb, American

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Seneca

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Ovid

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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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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