Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Dietrich, Marlene

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

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.

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

Socrates

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Mohammed

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ovid

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

Bible

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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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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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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rohn, Jim

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There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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

Seneca

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, American

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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