Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

- Rodman, Frances

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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.

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

Wall Street Journal

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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

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

Venning, R.

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

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

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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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

11.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Astor, John Jacob

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

18.

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

Lucretius

19.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mohammed

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

Ovid

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Socrates

34.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

35.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

37.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

40.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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