Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Astor, John Jacob

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

10.

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

11.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

15.

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

Wall Street Journal

16.

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

Mohammed

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

Lucretius

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Solon

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

29.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

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 is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

35.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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

Seneca

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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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This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish