Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

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Best Quotes about Wealth

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Rohn, Jim

How much money is enough?

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

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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

Rex Stout

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

Mohammed

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Lucretius

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

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

Socrates

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

Seneca

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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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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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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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 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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]