Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Carnegie, 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

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

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

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

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

Wicker, John

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

Proverb

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Socrates

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

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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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mohammed

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Solon

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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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