Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Lippett, John P.

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 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

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

10.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Spanish

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Rand, Ayn

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

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Mohammed

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

34.

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

Rex Stout

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Peter, Laurence J.

42.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

45.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)