Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Proverb, American

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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How much money is enough?

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lucretius

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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.