Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Proverb

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

12.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Mohammed

16.

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

Lucretius

17.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

18.

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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

20.

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

Seneca

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

26.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

27.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

28.

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

Seneca

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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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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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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.

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Ovid

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Socrates

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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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How much money is enough?

44.

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

Solon

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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

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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

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