Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Proverb

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

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

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rex Stout

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Ovid

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mohammed

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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

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

Socrates

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

Seneca

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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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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

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

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

Proverb, Spanish