Motivational Quotes

Wealth

He that is rich is wise.

- Depoe, Daniel

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Seneca

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rivarol, Antoine

10.

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

Rodman, Frances

11.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

12.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Lippett, John P.

14.

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

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

21.

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

Mizner, Wilson

22.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Proverb, Italian

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

25.

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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

28.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Solon

33.

How much money is enough?

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

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

Mohammed

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

Seneca

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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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