Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Plenty makes dainty!

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, American

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

Solon

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

Wicker, John

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

Seneca

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mizner, Wilson

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

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

Chilo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

Mohammed

12.

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

13.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Socrates

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

Carnegie, Andrew

21.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

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

Proverb

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

Venning, R.

25.

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

26.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

27.

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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Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

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

Rockefeller, John D.

30.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

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

Benjamin Franklin

34.

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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Lucretius

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

41.

How much money is enough?

42.

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

43.

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

Lippett, John P.

44.

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

45.

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

Rex Stout

46.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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