Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Bogart, Humphrey

Best Quotes about Wealth

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Seneca

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Venning, R.

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

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

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

Ovid

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Seneca

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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How much money is enough?

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Lucretius

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

Mizner, Wilson

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Rand, Ayn

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

46.

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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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]

Bible

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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.