WEALTH QUOTES III

quotations about wealth

Wealth quote

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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We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Thomas

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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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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'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


Some people who have a lot of money like to show it off. They buy large houses, expensive cars, and all the toys you can imagine. But others keep their affluence on the down low. They don't look any different from anyone else, but they have some serious cash stashed away. These folks have what is known as stealth wealth. They are worth way more than they appear to be, and they often manage to retire early or follow their dreams in some other way that surprises the people around them -- people who never realized they had that kind of money.

SARAH WINFREY

"5 Reasons Stealth Wealth Is the Best Wealth", WiseBread, March 24, 2017


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

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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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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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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


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

NOAM CHOMSKY

Requiem for the American Dream

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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


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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

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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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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


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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