Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Rand, Ayn

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Mohammed

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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How much money is enough?

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rex Stout

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Proverb, American

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Plenty makes dainty!