Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Seneca

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

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

Socrates

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Proverb

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lucretius

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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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

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

24.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Bacon, Francis

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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

Solon

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Mohammed

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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.