WEALTH QUOTES II

quotations about wealth

Wealth quote

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics


Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


Many men want wealth--not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Every thing subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


A common misconception about building wealth is that it's only possible with a high income. While a growing income obviously makes things easier, the preconception that it's absolutely necessary ends up missing the core idea of wealth accumulation. A bigger paycheck helps only if that money is being used optimally. We all know of various celebrities that have squandered millions of dollars and declared bankruptcy because of poor spending habits. Instead, building wealth is about making more than you consume, and then saving the difference. This means that the equation can be tackled on both sides of the spectrum, and that almost anyone can take steps to be more financially secure if they make smarter choices with their expenses.

MIKE MOZART

"Is it Possible to Build Wealth on Minimum Wage?", Equities, April 4, 2017


Wealth is useless on the day of wrath, but virtue saves from death.

PROVERBS 11:4


There has always been a display of wealth and always will be, until the depression comes, which it always does. And let me tell you, a display is a good thing. It shows people that you can be successful. It can show you a way of life.

DONALD TRUMP

interview, Playboy, March 1990

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What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

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We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Thomas

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A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.

JACK BENNY

The Jack Benny Program

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In my seasoned experience as a grouchy broke person, and my many years of coaching countless people on the topic of wealth, I've discovered that few things make people want to fight, vomit, or ask for their money back more than telling them that one must be rich to be successful and complete.

JEN SINCERO

You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth


There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

JOHN LOCKE

Letters on Toleration

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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736

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Jesus and the apostles nowhere speak of wealth as a thing to be prayed for. They nowhere characterize wealth as a blessing, or the accumulation of it, by enterprise and industry, as praiseworthy. The new dispensation nowhere promises either riches or long life to the righteous: it promises eternal life and treasures in heaven. The "poverty" which Jesus calls "blessed" consists, not in penury and the lack of the necessaries of life, but in abundance or non-abundance, with a knowledge that the abundance, if there be abundance, is the gratuitious gift of God; and also the knowledge, if there be non-abundance, that "whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth."

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

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The poor know well what wealth can do--
The rich their happiest chances miss;
We sit too close to grasp the view,
Or stand too far to feel the bliss.

CAROLINE SPENCER

"Outside"

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A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

A City Set on a Hill

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Wealth which breeds idleness ... is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worm's banquet.

HORACE MANN

A Few Thoughts for a Young Man

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Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Gifts of Fortune", Les Caractères

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Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being -- much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

GARRISON KEILLOR

attributed, The Times Book of Quotations

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As large trees are not the most productive, neither are wealthy men the most liberal.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs