Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mohammed

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Bible

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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

31.

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

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Rex Stout

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lucretius

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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