Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Where there are friends there is wealth.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Ovid

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

Mizner, Wilson

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, American

23.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Wicker, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mohammed

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How much money is enough?