Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Astor, John Jacob

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Wicker, John

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

Proverb, American

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Lucretius

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Astor, John Jacob

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Rohn, Jim

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

43.

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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

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