Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, French

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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 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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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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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mohammed

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Solon

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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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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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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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