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

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

Proverb

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

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

Solon

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

10.

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

Lucretius

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

Wicker, John

13.

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

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

Socrates

15.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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

22.

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

Mohammed

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Elizabeth Aston

28.

How much money is enough?

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, American

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

46.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

47.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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