Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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 wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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

Solon

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Lucretius

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