Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Proverb

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

Mizner, Wilson

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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How much money is enough?

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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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

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

Ovid

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Mohammed

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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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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Venning, R.

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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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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb