Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Chilo

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb

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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

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rex Stout

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

Seneca

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

Ovid

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Mohammed

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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]

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

30.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

31.

How much money is enough?

32.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

37.

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

Proverb, American

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

Dietrich, Marlene

39.

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

Seneca

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bogart, Humphrey

45.

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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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