Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rex Stout

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

Seneca

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

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

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

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

Solon

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Ovid

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

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

12.

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

13.

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

Chilo

15.

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.

16.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

17.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

18.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

19.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

20.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

21.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

24.

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

Proverb

25.

How much money is enough?

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

28.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Lucretius

32.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

33.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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 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

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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 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

38.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

47.

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

48.

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

Mizner, Wilson

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin