Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rex Stout

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Seneca

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mohammed

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Ovid

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Solon

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

Proverb

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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]

Bible

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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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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

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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