WEALTH QUOTES II

quotations about wealth

Wealth quote

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


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

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


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

PROVERBS 11:4


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

Tags: William Batchelder Greene


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

Tags: Garrison Keillor


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

NOAM CHOMSKY

Requiem for the American Dream

Tags: Noam Chomsky


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


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

Tags: George Ade


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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

Tags: William Scott Downey


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


Small aid is wealth for daily gladness; once a man be done with hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

EURIPIDES

Electra

Tags: Euripides


Jesus and the apostles nowhere speak of wealth as a thing to be prayed for. They nowhere characterize wealth as a blessing, or the accumulation of it, by enterprise and industry, as praiseworthy. The new dispensation nowhere promises either riches or long life to the righteous: it promises eternal life and treasures in heaven. The "poverty" which Jesus calls "blessed" consists, not in penury and the lack of the necessaries of life, but in abundance or non-abundance, with a knowledge that the abundance, if there be abundance, is the gratuitious gift of God; and also the knowledge, if there be non-abundance, that "whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth."

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

Tags: William Batchelder Greene


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

Tags: Donald Trump


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: Aeschylus


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

Tags: Jean de la Bruyere


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


As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

Tags: Henry Ward Beecher


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

Tags: Charles William Day


Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

BARACK OBAMA

speech, July 12, 2006

Tags: Barack Obama