Motivational Quotes

Wealth

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Bible

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Wicker, John

10.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Astor, John Jacob

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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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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Seneca

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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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

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

30.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

32.

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

33.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Peter, Laurence J.

38.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

44.

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

Solon

45.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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 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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How much money is enough?

49.

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

50.

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