WEALTH QUOTES VI

quotations about wealth

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd


Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G. K. CHESTERTON

A Miscellany of Men

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That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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

REX STOUT

The Red Box

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Almost every wealthy man in this country will tell you that his greatest satisfaction and happiest days were when he was emerging from poverty into a competency; when he first felt the tonic from the swelling of his small savings towards the stream of fortune, and knew that want would no longer dog his steps.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

The Miracle of Right Thought

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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

"The Deserted Village"

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Being wealthy and being successful and being able to run government are not synonymous.

AMEYA PAWAR

"Gubernatorial candidate targets 'wealth worship'", Chicago Sun-Times, April 9, 2017


We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

MARK TWAIN

American Claimant

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Rich isn't an amount of money, it's a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can.

DAVE RAMSEY

daily tip, official Dave Ramsey website


A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Madame Bovary

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One of the biggest favours you can do yourself and your wealth is to address that gnawing "want", find tools to stop it getting out of control.

DAWN RIDLER

"Big wealth killers", Biz News, March 30, 2017


He who has wealth has friends.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Gifts of Fortune", Les Caractères

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In my years of working with people and their money, I can tell you that money is not their true wealth. Now, I am fully for working on and accumulation of one's net worth. Your net worth is the total of your assets minus your liabilities. Net worth is what we have to show for years of hard work, and rightfully it should add up to something significant. But your money, or even your net worth, is not your true wealth. Rather, True Wealth is all that money can't buy.

LOUANN SCHULFER

"Schulfer: Wealth money can't buy", Stevens Point Journal, February 3, 2016


The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.

CHARLES READE

Christie Johnstone

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