Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Where there are friends there is wealth.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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.

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

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

Lucretius

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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 the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, American

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Bacon, Francis

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Solon

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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How much money is enough?

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Socrates

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Rand, Ayn

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Wicker, John

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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