Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

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

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

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.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Lucretius

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

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

15.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Wicker, John

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

Proverb

19.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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How much money is enough?

23.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

24.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

25.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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

29.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

31.

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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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

33.

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

35.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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

Socrates

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

Seneca

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