Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mohammed

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

Lucretius

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

Seneca

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, American

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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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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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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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Ovid

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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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Seneca

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rex Stout

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis