Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Wealth

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.

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

Billings, Josh

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Rand, Ayn

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

Proverb, American

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

29.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

31.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Seneca

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Seneca