Motivational Quotes

Wealth

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

- Lippett, John P.

Best Quotes about Wealth

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Chilo

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Dietrich, Marlene

10.

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

11.

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

Rand, Ayn

12.

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

Bogart, Humphrey

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

15.

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

Rodman, Frances

16.

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

17.

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

18.

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

21.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Rivarol, Antoine

24.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

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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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

28.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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No just person ever became quickly rich.

Menander of Athens

30.

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

Venning, R.

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

34.

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

Benjamin Franklin

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

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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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Spanish

43.

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

Rex Stout

45.

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

Elizabeth Aston

46.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

48.

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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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