Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Controlled time is our true wealth.

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

How much money is enough?

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

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

11.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Ovid

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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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I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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

Proverb

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

19.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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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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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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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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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

25.

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

Wall Street Journal

26.

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

Mohammed

28.

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, American

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bacon, Francis

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