Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lucretius

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rex Stout

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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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

Seneca

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Bacon, Francis

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Venning, R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Proverb, American

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Mohammed

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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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How much money is enough?

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Yiddish