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

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lippett, John P.

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Wicker, John

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Seneca

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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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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Ovid

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

Lucretius

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

Mohammed

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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

32.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

35.

How much money is enough?

36.

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

Astor, John Jacob

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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No just person ever became quickly rich.