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

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Solon

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

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

10.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Wicker, John

12.

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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

14.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

15.

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

Proverb, American

17.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

21.

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

22.

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

Ovid

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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

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

Proverb

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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

28.

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

Elizabeth Aston

29.

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

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Socrates

33.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

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

35.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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