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

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

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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.

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

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Rex Stout

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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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

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

Socrates

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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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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Ovid

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lucretius

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Solon

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Rivarol, Antoine