Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Rex Stout

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.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, Italian

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

17.

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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 thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Proverb

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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Channing, William Henry

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

Solon

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

Lippett, John P.

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Seneca

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Franklin, Benjamin