Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Billings, Josh

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Venning, R.

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

Mohammed

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

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

Proverb, American

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Mizner, Wilson

10.

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

Rodman, Frances

11.

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

12.

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

Lippett, John P.

13.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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How much money is enough?

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Solon

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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.

31.

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

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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 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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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