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

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

Ovid

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Proverb

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

15.

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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

Solon

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

Seneca

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Proverb, American

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Wicker, John

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Seneca

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