Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Solon

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

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Rex Stout

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

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

Mohammed

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

Proverb

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Bible

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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How much money is enough?

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