Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Proverb

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

10.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 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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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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lippett, John P.

17.

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

Proverb, American

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

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

31.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Solon

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Rohn, Jim

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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