Motivational Quotes

Wealth

You can never be too rich or too thin.

- Simpson, Wallis

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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.

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

Seneca

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

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Proverb

10.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

11.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

14.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Lippett, John P.

22.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Seneca

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

Socrates

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

How much money is enough?

44.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

45.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster