Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bogart, Humphrey

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Ovid

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

Seneca

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lucretius

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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How much money is enough?

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

Peter, Laurence J.

41.

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

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

Solon

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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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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques