Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Ovid

How much money is enough?

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

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

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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

Solon

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Lucretius

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

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

Venning, R.

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.