Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, American

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Mizner, Wilson

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Venning, R.

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

Seneca

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

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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

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

Solon

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Billings, Josh

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Wicker, John

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Proverb

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rand, Ayn

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

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Seneca

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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