Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Venning, R.

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

Proverb, American

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

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Mohammed

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Ovid

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb

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How much money is enough?

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Astor, John Jacob

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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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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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, 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

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

Solon

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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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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.