Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Wealth

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Thoreau, Henry David

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ovid

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

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

Bacon, Francis

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

10.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Benjamin Franklin

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Proverb, American

18.

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

Socrates

19.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Mizner, Wilson

29.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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

Wall Street Journal

34.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Mohammed

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Astor, John Jacob

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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 does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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 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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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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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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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

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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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How much money is enough?