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

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

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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.

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

Lucretius

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

13.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Ovid

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

Proverb

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Solon

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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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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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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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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Socrates

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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