Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Wealth

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Venning, R.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

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

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

10.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

11.

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

Elizabeth Aston

12.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Solon

15.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Socrates

19.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

20.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

21.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

22.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rodman, Frances

32.

How much money is enough?

33.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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

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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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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David