Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Seneca

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

11.

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

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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

14.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

18.

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

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

Rand, Ayn

21.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

22.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

23.

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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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

25.

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

Mohammed

26.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

27.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

35.

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

Wicker, John

36.

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

38.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

39.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

40.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.

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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.

42.

How much money is enough?

43.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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