Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

- Rodman, Frances

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

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

Seneca

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Ovid

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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lucretius

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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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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How much money is enough?

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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