Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Socrates

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

Proverb

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

12.

How much money is enough?

13.

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

Ovid

14.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

Solon

22.

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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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Chilo

34.

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

Wall Street Journal

35.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Mohammed

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Seneca

43.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Seneca

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

Elizabeth Aston

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rand, Ayn

50.

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