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

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

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

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

Mohammed

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Lucretius

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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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

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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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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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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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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Seneca

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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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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