Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Rand, Ayn

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

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

Bacon, Francis

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

11.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Lucretius

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Socrates

20.

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

21.

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

Astor, John Jacob

22.

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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

30.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

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

32.

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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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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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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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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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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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

39.

How much money is enough?

40.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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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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

46.

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

Proverb, American

47.

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

48.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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