WEALTH QUOTES V

quotations about wealth

Envy wealth for its power of good, not ill.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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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


Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

"The Deserted Village"

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

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd


The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.

GEORGE ADE

"The Through Train", Knocking the Neighbors


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


That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed;
Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold
Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty.
For men, however strong or beautiful,
Generally follow the train of a richer man.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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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


I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Riches", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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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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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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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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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


Many people dream of inheriting a large sum of money. We spend time imagining the cars we will buy, the homes we will live in and the holidays we will take once we hit "the good times". However, most wealth advisers will tell you that those who inherit money face many challenges -- not least of which is maintaining this wealth and not squandering, in a short space of time, what may have taken generations to accrue.

JACQUES BROWN

"Inherited wealth is not an easy windfall", iAfrica, March 24, 2017


I spend my life hustling for small money, staying one step ahead of de police. But I will not do dat all my life. You see, I done read Napoleon Hill and as a thinking man, and with de grace of God, I go be millionaire before I reach thirty.

CHRIS ABANI

Graceland

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