Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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.

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

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

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

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

Proverb

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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How much money is enough?

42.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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

Solon

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

Lucretius

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Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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