Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Wealth

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

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

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

Rex Stout

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Lucretius

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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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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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ovid

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Solon

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

Proverb, Italian

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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey