Motivational Quotes

Wealth

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Wealth

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lucretius

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

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Solon

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

Proverb

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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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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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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Socrates

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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Bible

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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

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Seneca

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mohammed

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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 the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

43.

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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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 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 the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Italian

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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