Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Plenty makes dainty!

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Mohammed

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

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

Dietrich, Marlene

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Lucretius

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Solon

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

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

Proverb

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

Ovid

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chilo