Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Wealth

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

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

Proverb, Italian

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Seneca

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

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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How much money is enough?

11.

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

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Wicker, John

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

Mohammed

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

Benjamin Franklin

23.

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

Wall Street Journal

25.

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

Lucretius

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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

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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

30.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Socrates

33.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

42.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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

48.

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)