Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Wealth

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Wicker, John

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

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Solon

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Channing, William Henry

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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 is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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.