Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rodman, Frances

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mohammed

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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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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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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Lucretius

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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How much money is enough?

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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Proverb, American

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