quotations about wealth
Wealth is a matter of life, death and ZIP codes.
MICHAEL TAYLOR
"Wealth is a matter of life, death and ZIP codes", Houston Chronicle, December 10, 2016
No matter how hard you climb, there are always the rich above you, who got there without effort. Lucky stiffs, holding you down, making you discontent so you buy more of the crap advertised on television.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit at Rest
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
PLATO
The Republic
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
WILLIAM FEATHER
Forbes, Volume 135
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Gold-Foil
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth -- the soil and the labourer.
KARL MARX
Capital
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.
ARISTOTLE
Rhetoric
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.
O. HENRY
"The Complete Life of John Hopkins"
Desire may reflect anything from a desperate need to a transitory want. In either case, wealth is anything that satisfies the craving. It applies balm to the itch. It may, in fact, gratify more than one desire at a time. We may want a touch of beauty on our living room wall. A painting, even an inexpensive reproduction, may provide a small surge of pleasure every time we pause to look at it. The same work of art may simultaneously fulfill our desire to impress visitors with our splendid good taste, or our social importance. But wealth can also be a bank account, a bicycle, a hoard of food or a health insurance policy.
ALVIN TOFFLER
Revolutionary Wealth
The first wealth is health.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Power", The Conduct of Life
Building long-term, sustainable wealth is a process that takes dedication and consistency, just like building muscle.
DAVID OSBORN & PAUL MORRIS
"Wealth Can't Wait is Released", Broadway World, April 4, 2017
Wealth sticks out in our society because to have wealth is to use it. Just piling up numbers in an account doesn't do anyone any good. To have money is to spend money.
MICHAEL SWICKARD
"Look at the wealth effect in politics to catch scummy behavior", NMPolitics, January 25, 2016
As a rule, the most biting and bitter of the castigators of wealth are those who have signally failed in the pursuit of it.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays, vol. II
The wealth of the richest 62 people grew by more than half a trillion dollars in that last half-decade, while the wealth of the poorest 50 percent of people globally decreased by more than $1 trillion during the same period. Far from trickling down, income and wealth are instead being sucked upwards at an alarming rate.
GILLIAN B. WHITE
"Where Is All the World's Money Going?", The Atlantic, January 19, 2016
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions. Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion; for voluntary undoing, may be as well for a man's country, as for the kingdom of heaven. But ordinary expense, ought to be limited by a man's estate; and governed with such regard, as it be within his compass; and not subject to deceit and abuse of servants; and ordered to the best show, that the bills may be less than the estimation abroad.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Expense", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Wealth is the ability to consume, nothing more and nothing less.
TIM WORSTALL
"Zuckerberg's Rise Up The Billionaires List Is A Sign Of Decreasing, Not Increasing, Inequality", Forbes, February 3, 2016
Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy