Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Venning, R.

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

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

How much money is enough?

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

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

Ovid

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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 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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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]

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lucretius

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

Proverb

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David