WEALTH QUOTES II

quotations about wealth

Wealth quote

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

PROVERBS 11:4


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


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

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


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


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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Some people who have a lot of money like to show it off. They buy large houses, expensive cars, and all the toys you can imagine. But others keep their affluence on the down low. They don't look any different from anyone else, but they have some serious cash stashed away. These folks have what is known as stealth wealth. They are worth way more than they appear to be, and they often manage to retire early or follow their dreams in some other way that surprises the people around them -- people who never realized they had that kind of money.

SARAH WINFREY

"5 Reasons Stealth Wealth Is the Best Wealth", WiseBread, March 24, 2017


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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I call this inequality toxic because, over time and generations, it builds upon itself. Wealth and race map together to consolidate historic injustices, which now weave through neighborhoods and housing markets, educational institutions, and labor markets, creating an increasingly divided opportunity structure. So long as we have entrenched wealth inequality intertwined with racial inequality, we cannot even begin to bend the arc toward equity.

THOMAS M. SHAPIRO

"How Did America's Wealth Inequality Reach This Level of Toxic?", AlterNet, April 11, 2017


Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"The Rich Boy"

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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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Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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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While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.

HOWARD ZINN

A People's History of the United States

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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


Nought is there in wealth
That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth
Of Destiny and Doom.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

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The rich man's happiness is but from the teeth outwards, a counterfeit satisfaction, with a worm in his heart.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs