Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

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Best Quotes about Wealth

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Dietrich, Marlene

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Venning, R.

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Proverb

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He that is rich is wise.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Solon

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rex Stout

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

Wicker, John

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

Bacon, Francis

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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 ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

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

Lucretius

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca