Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rex Stout

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

Seneca

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

10.

How much money is enough?

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Bible

14.

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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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

16.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

19.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

20.

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

Mohammed

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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

Rand, Ayn

28.

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.

30.

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

Lippett, John P.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

34.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Proverb, Italian

36.

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

Solon

37.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

39.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

40.

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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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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 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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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

45.

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

Socrates

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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

48.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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