Motivational Quotes

Wealth

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

How much money is enough?

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

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

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

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

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.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Lippett, John P.

14.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

15.

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

Bible

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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

17.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

18.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

19.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

20.

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

Rand, Ayn

24.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

26.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

28.

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

Mohammed

29.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

34.

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

Mizner, Wilson

35.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

39.

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

Ovid

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

43.

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

Proverb, Italian

44.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Rex Stout

46.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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

48.

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Seneca

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

Proverb