Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Ovid

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

Proverb

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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 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

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Seneca

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Italian

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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Socrates

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Bacon, Francis

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rex Stout

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

46.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mohammed