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

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

Proverb, Italian

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rodman, Frances

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Seneca

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

Rohn, Jim

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Socrates

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Solon

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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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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

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

Mohammed

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Proverb, Spanish

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lucretius

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

Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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