Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Lucretius

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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

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

Mohammed

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

Proverb

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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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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Rex Stout

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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.

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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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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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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

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lippett, John P.

35.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Venning, R.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Seneca

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

43.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Seneca

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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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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

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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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How much money is enough?

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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