Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Ovid

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

Socrates

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Astor, John Jacob

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

10.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

12.

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

Elizabeth Aston

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

18.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

Solon

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

Rand, Ayn

21.

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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

32.

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

Proverb

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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

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How much money is enough?

36.

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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Seneca

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

46.

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

Mohammed

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques