WEALTH QUOTES IV

quotations about wealth

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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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


Get rich or die tryin'.

50 CENT

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

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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 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


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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Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

ARISTOPHANES

Plutus

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

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Kabeiroi


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


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

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Gifts of Fortune", Les Caractères


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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Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.

ARNOLD BENNETT

A Question of Sex

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Wealth has never the value to its possessor as it is supposed to have by an avaricious admirer.

ANTHONY LISLE

The Westminster Review, January 1914


If you do not appreciate what you now have you will never appreciate what you will have.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Père Goriot

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Titles, riches, and fine houses signify no more to the making of one man better than another, than the finer saddle to the making the better horse.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

letter to Ernest Hemingway, August 1936