Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Rockefeller, John D.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

10.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, American

13.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Benjamin Franklin

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

25.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Solon

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

31.

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Astor, John Jacob

32.

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

Seneca

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Rodman, Frances

37.

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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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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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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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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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 not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Peter, Laurence J.

50.

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