Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Rex Stout

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Venning, R.

10.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Seneca

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lippett, John P.

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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 ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

22.

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

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

Proverb

24.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

25.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Bible

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A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Astor, John Jacob

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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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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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Lucretius

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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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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

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

Mohammed

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

Proverb

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

Wicker, John