Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Wealth

How much money is enough?

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Seneca

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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Astor, John Jacob

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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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 is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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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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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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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Solon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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