Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Socrates

10.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

11.

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

21.

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Ovid

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

Seneca

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Solon

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

35.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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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

40.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

43.

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

Elizabeth Aston

44.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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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