Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Mohammed

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Rand, Ayn

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

17.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

18.

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

Astor, John Jacob

19.

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

Wall Street Journal

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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

Rivarol, Antoine

29.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

30.

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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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

36.

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

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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 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

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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