Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

10.

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

11.

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

Mohammed

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

17.

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

Elizabeth Aston

18.

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

19.

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 the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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

Astor, John Jacob

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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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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

25.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

Wall Street Journal

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Chilo

32.

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

34.

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

Solon

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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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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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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

43.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

44.

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

Proverb, American

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Rohn, Jim

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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Plenty makes dainty!