Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Italian

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Socrates

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wicker, John

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lucretius

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

Ovid

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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How much money is enough?

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

Solon

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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