Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Chilo

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

Bible

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Lucretius

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb

13.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

14.

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

Ovid

15.

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

Solon

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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

18.

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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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

20.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

21.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Socrates

23.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

28.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

29.

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

Elizabeth Aston

30.

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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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

32.

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

33.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

34.

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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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

36.

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

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

Wall Street Journal

38.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

41.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

42.

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

43.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

44.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

45.

How much money is enough?

46.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

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.

50.

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

Rodman, Frances