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 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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Seneca

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

Dietrich, Marlene

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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.

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

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

10.

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

Elizabeth Aston

11.

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

Mizner, Wilson

12.

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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

15.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

19.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

20.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

21.

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 a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

Mohammed

30.

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

Socrates

31.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

34.

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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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

40.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Ovid

44.

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

Lippett, John P.

48.

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

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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

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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