Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

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

Proverb, American

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

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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How much money is enough?

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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 in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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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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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

31.

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

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

34.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mohammed

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

Mizner, Wilson

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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

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

Proverb

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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

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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

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