Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Wall Street Journal

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

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

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon

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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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Italian

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rex Stout

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

Dietrich, Marlene

43.

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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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