Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Solon

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

31.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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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

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

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