Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Wealth

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

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

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rand, Ayn

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

10.

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

Mizner, Wilson

11.

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

Wall Street Journal

12.

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

13.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

17.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

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

Rex Stout

25.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

28.

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

Seneca

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Proverb, American

31.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wicker, John

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

44.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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.