Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Socrates

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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

Proverb, American

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

10.

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

11.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

13.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

14.

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

15.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

16.

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

Seneca

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

Wicker, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

23.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

24.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

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How much money is enough?

27.

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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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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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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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

31.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

40.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

41.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

44.

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

Rand, Ayn

45.

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

Lucretius

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

49.

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

Proverb

50.

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

Lippett, John P.