Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Mohammed

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Seneca

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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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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Socrates

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb, American

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Rex Stout

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

Lucretius

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

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

Rivarol, Antoine