Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Socrates

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Seneca

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Proverb

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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 in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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How much money is enough?

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ovid

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Proverb, Italian

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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