Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Wicker, John

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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

Chilo

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, American

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

Socrates

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

Seneca

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

Ovid

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

22.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mohammed

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Rohn, Jim

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb

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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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This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that is rich is wise.