Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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 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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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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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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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How much money is enough?

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ovid

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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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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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

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Bible

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Seneca