Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Seneca

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

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

Lucretius

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

Rex Stout

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

10.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

13.

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

20.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

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

Wicker, John

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

25.

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

Proverb

26.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

28.

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

Astor, John Jacob

29.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

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

Proverb, American

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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

33.

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

Ovid

34.

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

35.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Mizner, Wilson

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

42.

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

Rohn, Jim

43.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

44.

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

45.

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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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

48.

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

Bacon, Francis