Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Venning, R.

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

Seneca

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

Rex Stout

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Proverb, Italian

15.

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

16.

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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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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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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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

20.

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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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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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 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

24.

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

Wall Street Journal

25.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

27.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

28.

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

29.

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

Elizabeth Aston

30.

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

Mohammed

31.

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

Rodman, Frances

32.

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

33.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

34.

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

Benjamin Franklin

35.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

37.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa

38.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

40.

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

41.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

42.

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

Rand, Ayn

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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