Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rex Stout

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

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

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Young, Andrew

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lucretius

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

Seneca

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.

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

Wall Street Journal

12.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

13.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

14.

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

19.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

21.

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

Ovid

22.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

26.

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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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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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mizner, Wilson

31.

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

Proverb

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Proverb, American

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.