Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

- Venning, R.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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 the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

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

Elizabeth Aston

10.

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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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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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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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Solon

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

25.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Mohammed

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Proverb

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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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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