Motivational Quotes

Wealth

No just person ever became quickly rich.

- Menander of Athens

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Mohammed

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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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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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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Proverb

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Bible

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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

Seneca

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

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How much money is enough?

37.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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 the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lucretius

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

Proverb, American

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

Benjamin Franklin

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von