Motivational Quotes

Wealth

He that is rich is wise.

- Depoe, Daniel

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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.

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

Rex Stout

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

Seneca

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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

15.

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

16.

How much money is enough?

17.

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

Socrates

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

23.

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

Proverb, American

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

26.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

28.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Solon

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mohammed

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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 secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Didion, Joan

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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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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 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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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 the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn