Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Wall Street Journal

Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

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

Socrates

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, French

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

Rand, Ayn

10.

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

11.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Solon

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

16.

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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The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

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

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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

Proverb, American

22.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

26.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

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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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Mohammed

31.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

Astor, John Jacob

36.

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

Rodman, Frances

37.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

38.

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

Elizabeth Aston

39.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

41.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

42.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

43.

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

44.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

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

Chilo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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