Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Venning, R.

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

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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

12.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, American

22.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

28.

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

Proverb

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Lippett, John P.

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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 fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Solon

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

Lucretius

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

Benjamin Franklin

49.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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.