Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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]

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Best Quotes about Wealth

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Ovid

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lucretius

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

Astor, John Jacob

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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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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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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How much money is enough?

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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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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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

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Mohammed

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Socrates

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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]

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.