WEALTH QUOTES VI

quotations about wealth

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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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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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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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


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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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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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G. K. CHESTERTON

A Miscellany of Men

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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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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


If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

JOHN GREEN

"The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes", YouTube

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He who has wealth has friends.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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The most wanton torture is that of the rich trying to kill time.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


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

MARK TWAIN

American Claimant

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We may see the small value God has for riches by the people he gives them to.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"

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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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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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Wealth builders stay motivated and inspire others to keep on keeping on.

KEN DOGHUDJE

"Forget about building wealth if you don't have these 14 skills and abilities", NAIJ, January 29, 2016