Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Wealth

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

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

Proverb

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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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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

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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How much money is enough?

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

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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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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

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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Seneca

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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 slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ovid

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

Solon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rivarol, Antoine