Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Rex Stout

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Wall Street Journal

13.

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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

15.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Seneca

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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

19.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

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

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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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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

24.

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

Proverb, American

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

27.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Venning, R.

33.

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

Lucretius

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

Solon

35.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Mohammed

39.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

40.

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

Proverb

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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

42.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dietrich, Marlene

45.

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

Lippett, John P.

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