Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Seneca

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

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

Wall Street Journal

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

10.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

11.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mohammed

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Rex Stout

30.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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 man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

Astor, John Jacob

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Rivarol, Antoine

42.

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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How much money is enough?

44.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb

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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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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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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