Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Carnegie, Andrew

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Ovid

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Astor, John Jacob

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Socrates

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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How much money is enough?

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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lucretius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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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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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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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 a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mohammed

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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