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[Image via Wikipedia]Sometimes we just need to spend a little more time on getting our thinking straight. Relax a little and quit chasing so hard.

The following are 21 of a few of my favorite wealth and riches quotations…

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth. -Stuart Wilde

‘Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one’s power to do good, riches being another word for power. -Mary Wortley

He who is contented is rich. -Lao Tzu

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. -Gloria Steinem

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. -Edmund Spenser

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. -Logan P. Smith

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. -Gail Sheehy

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. -Robert H. Schuller

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. -Jean-Paul Sartre

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. -John D. Rockefeller

I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. -Tom Petty

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. -Orison Swett Marden

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails. -Hedy Lamarr

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants – more than anything else – to become rich. As long as they don’t have the money, it’ll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they’ll understand how important other things are – and have always been. -Benjamin Jowett

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. -Samuel Johnson

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do. -Jackie Collins

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. -Edmund Burke

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. -Warren Buffett

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective. -Danny Bonaduce

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight. -William J. H. Boetcker

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
-Oscar Wilde