Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Plenty makes dainty!

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Lucretius

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

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

Socrates

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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How much money is enough?

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

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

Proverb

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

Mohammed

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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

31.

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

Wall Street Journal

32.

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

Wicker, John

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

Seneca

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Italian

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

44.

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

Seneca

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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

50.

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

Benjamin Franklin