Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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

Socrates

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

Chilo

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Seneca

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How much money is enough?

25.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.