Motivational Quotes

Wealth

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

Ovid

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

Solon

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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 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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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 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 maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rohn, Jim

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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How much money is enough?

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dietrich, Marlene