WEALTH QUOTES V

quotations about wealth


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Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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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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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


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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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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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


Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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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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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He who has wealth has friends.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


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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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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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


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

MARK TWAIN

American Claimant

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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


I spend my life hustling for small money, staying one step ahead of de police. But I will not do dat all my life. You see, I done read Napoleon Hill and as a thinking man, and with de grace of God, I go be millionaire before I reach thirty.

CHRIS ABANI

Graceland

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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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When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.

GEORGE ADE

"The Through Train", Knocking the Neighbors