Motivational Quotes

Wealth

He that is rich is wise.

- Depoe, Daniel

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lucretius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rex Stout

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

Ovid

10.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

11.

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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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

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

Socrates

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

15.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Seneca

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb

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

Solon

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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