Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, Spanish

How much money is enough?

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Seneca

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Rex Stout

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Socrates

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

Seneca