Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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 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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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 maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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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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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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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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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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.

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

Bible

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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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Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

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

41.

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

Socrates

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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, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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 is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Proverb, Spanish