Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Seneca

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

10.

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

Elizabeth Aston

11.

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

23.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Dietrich, Marlene

25.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

27.

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

Proverb, Italian

28.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Wicker, John

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

37.

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

Proverb, American

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

Lucretius

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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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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

41.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

42.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

43.

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

Proverb

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

45.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible

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

Ovid

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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