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

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

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

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

10.

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

11.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

12.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

13.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

15.

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

Proverb, American

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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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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.

18.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

20.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

21.

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

22.

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

Mohammed

23.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

24.

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

26.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

Rand, Ayn

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

30.

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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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 not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

37.

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

Proverb

38.

How much money is enough?

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Rodman, Frances

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Seneca

45.

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

Rex Stout

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Ovid