Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rohn, Jim

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, American

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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How much money is enough?

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Wicker, John

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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

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.