Motivational Quotes

Wealth

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wealth

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

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

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

How much money is enough?

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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

11.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Lucretius

15.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Solon

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Mohammed

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

34.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

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