Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Benjamin Franklin

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

10.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Rodman, Frances

12.

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

13.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

15.

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

Proverb

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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

17.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

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

Astor, John Jacob

19.

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

Socrates

20.

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

21.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

27.

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

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Mohammed

32.

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

33.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Rohn, Jim

35.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

37.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

38.

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

Proverb, American

40.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Mizner, Wilson

43.

How much money is enough?

44.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Lucretius