Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Bible

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Seneca

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

Bogart, Humphrey

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

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

Rand, Ayn

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

Wall Street Journal

13.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Peter, Laurence J.

17.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

20.

How much money is enough?

21.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

24.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

25.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Astor, John Jacob

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Seneca

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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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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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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 fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David