WEALTH QUOTES VI

quotations about wealth

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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Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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Those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND

Gold-Foil

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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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Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil,
Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

GEORGE HERBERT

The Church-Porch

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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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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

SOPHOCLES

fragment, The Sons of Aleus

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

MARK TWAIN

American Claimant

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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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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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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


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


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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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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He who has wealth has friends.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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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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