Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Proverb, American

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Socrates

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How much money is enough?

21.

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

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

29.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Solon

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

Lucretius

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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