Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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

Solon

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Seneca

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

Bogart, Humphrey

16.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Socrates

21.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

22.

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

23.

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

Rodman, Frances

24.

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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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.

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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

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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

29.

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

Benjamin Franklin

30.

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

Wicker, John

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

34.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

36.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Bible

40.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

41.

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

42.

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

43.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

44.

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

45.

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

Mohammed

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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, 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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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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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Franklin, Benjamin