Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Solon

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

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

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

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

Seneca

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Astor, John Jacob

10.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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 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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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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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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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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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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How much money is enough?

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

28.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Socrates

38.

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

Solon

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ovid

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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

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

Seneca