WEALTH QUOTES III

quotations about wealth

Wealth quote

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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The wealthy have nothing left except money.

GEORGE ADE

"The Fable of the Misdirected Sympathy and the Come-Back of the Proud Steam-Fitter", True Bills

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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Doctor Thorne

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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


Poor is the man who can boast of nothing more than gold.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Titles, riches, and fine houses signify no more to the making of one man better than another, than the finer saddle to the making the better horse.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

BARACK OBAMA

speech, July 12, 2006

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

PROVERBS 11:4


The effect of the concentration of wealth is to yield concentration of power.

NOAM CHOMSKY

Requiem for the American Dream

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Any man can become rich who is base enough to keep a brothel, a gin palace, or a gambling house.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land

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Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

HOWARD ZINN

preface, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

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To remain secure and prosperous themselves, wealthy nations must extend the kind of cooperation to the less fortunate members that will inspire hope, confidence and progress. A rich nation can for a time, without noticeable damage to itself, pursue a course of self- indulgence, making its single goal the material ease and comfort of its own citizens--thus repudiating its own spiritual and material stake in a peaceful and prosperous society of nations. But the enmities it will incur, the isolation into which it will descend, and the internal moral and physical softness that will be engendered, will, in the long term, bring it to disaster.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

State of the Union Address, January 7, 1960

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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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Small aid is wealth for daily gladness; once a man be done with hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

EURIPIDES

Electra

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Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Kabeiroi


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


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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It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.

ROBERT WILSON LYND

The Little Angel: A Book of Essays

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If you do not appreciate what you now have you will never appreciate what you will have.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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