Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wealth

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Solon

14.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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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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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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

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

Wicker, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lucretius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis