Motivational Quotes

Wealth

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Wealth

How much money is enough?

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

Ovid

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lucretius

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

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

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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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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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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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

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

Bible

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

Elizabeth Aston

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Solon

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

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

Proverb

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Socrates

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.