Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Wealth

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Wall Street Journal

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Proverb, American

13.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

14.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

15.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

17.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

21.

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

Solon

22.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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

Mohammed

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Elizabeth Aston

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

37.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

38.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

40.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

44.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Dietrich, Marlene