Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Mohammed

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

Chilo

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Rex Stout

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

Proverb, American

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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 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

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

Ovid

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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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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 the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Bacon, Francis

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How much money is enough?

28.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

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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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Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

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

Lucretius

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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.