Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Wealth

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Seneca

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

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

Seneca

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

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Chilo

10.

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

11.

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

Benjamin Franklin

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

Proverb

19.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

23.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

24.

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

Elizabeth Aston

27.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

28.

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

Proverb, French

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

34.

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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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 only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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 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

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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

42.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

43.

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

Ovid

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

45.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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How much money is enough?

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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