Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

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

How much money is enough?

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

10.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Rex Stout

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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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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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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chilo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wicker, John

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

Proverb, American

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

Astor, John Jacob

34.

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

38.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Seneca

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

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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

47.

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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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