Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Wall Street Journal

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

Venning, R.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Seneca

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Solon

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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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

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

Mohammed

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

Ovid

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Spanish