Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Seneca

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

Lucretius

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Wicker, John

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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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

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

Solon

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

Bible

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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How much money is enough?

48.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Astor, John Jacob

50.

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]

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