Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Solon

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Seneca

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

Lucretius

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb, American

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

Ovid

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

10.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Proverb, Italian

12.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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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

26.

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

Wicker, John

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

29.

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

Astor, John Jacob

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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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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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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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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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Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

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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 does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

42.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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