Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

- Rodman, Frances

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, American

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Rand, Ayn

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Proverb, Italian

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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

11.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Proverb

13.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

15.

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

Solon

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

Seneca

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

Rex Stout

18.

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

Ovid

20.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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How much money is enough?

26.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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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 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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Wicker, John

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

Seneca

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

46.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Franklin, Benjamin