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

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

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

Rex Stout

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rodman, Frances

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Venning, R.

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Lucretius

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Daniel Akst

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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 is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rohn, Jim

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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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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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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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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