Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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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

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

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

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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How much money is enough?

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Seneca

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Mohammed

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I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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

Ovid

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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.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Seneca

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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