Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Plenty makes dainty!

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Astor, John Jacob

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rodman, Frances

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

Chilo

I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, American

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Plenty makes dainty!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lucretius

25.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Bacon, Francis

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

Socrates

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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

Mohammed

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

Seneca

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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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 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