Motivational Quotes

Wealth

You can never be too rich or too thin.

- Simpson, Wallis

Best Quotes about Wealth

How much money is enough?

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

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Ovid

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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 so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Melbourne, Lord

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 fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Bible

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Lucretius

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

Rex Stout

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Seneca

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

Solon