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

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Seneca

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bacon, Francis

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 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

10.

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

Rex Stout

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

15.

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

Lucretius

16.

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

Wicker, John

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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

18.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

23.

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

Astor, John Jacob

24.

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

Lippett, John P.

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Proverb

31.

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

Proverb, Italian

34.

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 is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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

Seneca

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How much money is enough?

38.

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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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

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Ovid

42.

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

Mohammed

43.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

44.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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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.