Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Solon

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

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Proverb, American

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Seneca

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Lippett, John P.

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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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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, 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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Astor, John Jacob

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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 fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Socrates

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

Rand, Ayn

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rex Stout

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

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

Proverb