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

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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

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

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Mohammed

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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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb, American

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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