Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Proverb

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

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Seneca

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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

28.

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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Ovid

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

39.

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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

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

Mohammed

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

Bible

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Wall Street Journal