WEALTH QUOTES III

quotations about wealth

Wealth quote

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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
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Thoughts Moral and Divine


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

NOAM CHOMSKY

Requiem for the American Dream

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

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Kabeiroi


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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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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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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Some people aren't meant to be rich. It's like when Babe Ruth was the greatest home run hitter. There had never been anybody like him, and his teammates would ask, "Babe, Babe, how do you hit the long ball?" And he'd say, "I don't know, man. I just swing at it." I see it like that. It's just something you have, something you're born with. Many people don't have the ability to be rich, because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a talent. Some people have a talent for piano. Some people have a talent for raising a family. Some people have a talent for golf. I just happen to have a talent for making money.

DONALD TRUMP

Playboy, October 2004


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

HENRY GEORGE

Progress and Poverty

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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


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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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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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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Great wealth and great poverty will disintegrate a nation in about the same time.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


There's a common misconception that wealth is a fixed pie, and that therefore for one person to have a lot of wealth requires somebody else to have less (the narrative often goes that wealthy people stole their wealth from poor and middle class people) ... [but] wealth can grow, so that even if someone's percentage of the pie remains the same, they will benefit from that individual slice getting bigger.

IAN TARTT

"Bernie Sanders on the Koch Brothers and Libertarian Ideas", The Libertarian Republic, April 18, 2017


Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs