Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Wall Street Journal

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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 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

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Seneca

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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 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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Socrates

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Solon

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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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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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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

43.

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

Seneca

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

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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