Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Proverb, American

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Mohammed

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

Proverb

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Lucretius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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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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 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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Ovid

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Plenty makes dainty!