Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lucretius

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

11.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Dietrich, Marlene

13.

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Mohammed

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Seneca

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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rex Stout

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

Seneca

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rockefeller, John D.

41.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lippett, John P.

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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