Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Budgell, Eustace

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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.

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

Proverb

10.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

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

Lucretius

13.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

14.

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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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

18.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

Venning, R.

20.

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

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

22.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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

25.

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

Mohammed

27.

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

Seneca

32.

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

Mizner, Wilson

33.

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

Wall Street Journal

36.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

37.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

40.

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

Lippett, John P.

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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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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

44.

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

Elizabeth Aston

45.

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

46.

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

Chilo

47.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

48.

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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Astor, John Jacob