WEALTH QUOTES III

quotations about wealth

Wealth quote

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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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Doctor Thorne

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Riches naturally gain a man a favourable reception in the world, and give merit a double lustre, when a person is endowed with it; and supply its place, in great measure, when it is absent. Tis wonderful to observe what airs of superiority fools and knaves, with large possessions, give themselves above men of the greatest merit in poverty.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

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In my seasoned experience as a grouchy broke person, and my many years of coaching countless people on the topic of wealth, I've discovered that few things make people want to fight, vomit, or ask for their money back more than telling them that one must be rich to be successful and complete.

JEN SINCERO

You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth


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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A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.

JACK BENNY

The Jack Benny Program

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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


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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


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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

A City Set on a Hill

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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


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

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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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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


The aspiration to wealth is deeply understantable. Getting high income from a good job is all well and good, but because wealth begets more wealth -- people are compensated simply for owning things -- wealth is, potentially, forever. It persists, and spreads through families and dynasties. Wealth can, and often does, endure for generations.

STEVE ROTH

"New Data Reveal the Depressing Truth About How Wealth Is Amassed in America", AlterNet, January 6, 2017