Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rex Stout

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

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

Bible

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How much money is enough?

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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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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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 that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

18.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb

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

Lucretius

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Lippett, John P.