quotations about wealth
Wealth is a matter of life, death and ZIP codes.
MICHAEL TAYLOR
"Wealth is a matter of life, death and ZIP codes", Houston Chronicle, December 10, 2016
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
PLATO
The Republic
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth -- the soil and the labourer.
KARL MARX
Capital
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
WILLIAM FEATHER
Forbes, Volume 135
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Gold-Foil
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions. Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion; for voluntary undoing, may be as well for a man's country, as for the kingdom of heaven. But ordinary expense, ought to be limited by a man's estate; and governed with such regard, as it be within his compass; and not subject to deceit and abuse of servants; and ordered to the best show, that the bills may be less than the estimation abroad.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Expense", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
No matter how hard you climb, there are always the rich above you, who got there without effort. Lucky stiffs, holding you down, making you discontent so you buy more of the crap advertised on television.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit at Rest
Like most children of affluence, I grew up with a distinct sense that my parents were only tolerably well off. This is because children always compare their families with wealthier ones, never with poorer. I thought I knew perfectly well what it meant to be rich in New York. If you were rich, you lived in a house with a pompous beaux-arts facade and kept a butler and gave children's parties with spun sugar on the ice cream and little cups of real silver as game prizes. If you were not rich you lived in a brownstone with Irish maids who never called you Master Louis and parents who hollered up and down the stairs instead of ringing bells.
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
A Writer's Capital
The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
"A Chapter of Erie", North American Review, July 1869
The first wealth is health.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Power", The Conduct of Life
Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.
ARISTOTLE
Rhetoric
Like spiritual growth, building wealth is a process. You can't expect to invest today and become a millionaire tomorrow, it takes time.... Become responsible financially, live within your means and start saving money. It's not easy and you may have some setbacks, but if you want to have a secure financial future you have no choice.
AARON KATSMAN
"Your Investments: The Omerand Your Wealth", Jerusalem Post, April 13, 2017
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.
O. HENRY
"The Complete Life of John Hopkins"
Wealth sticks out in our society because to have wealth is to use it. Just piling up numbers in an account doesn't do anyone any good. To have money is to spend money.
MICHAEL SWICKARD
"Look at the wealth effect in politics to catch scummy behavior", NMPolitics, January 25, 2016
Flying under the radar also means you don't have to keep up with the Joneses. If people don't realize you're wealthy, they won't expect you to buy a bigger house, drive a nicer car, or shop at expensive stores. The pressure is off, so you are free to make whatever financial decisions are best for you.
SARAH WINFREY
"5 Reasons Stealth Wealth Is the Best Wealth", WiseBread, March 24, 2017
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages of all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Be Merry Friends
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
Wealth just keeps growing for the 62 richest people in the world. Collectively, this ultra-wealthy group controls $1.76 trillion, which is about the cumulative worth of the poorer half of the world's population, or around 3.5 billion people. And since 2010, wealth has become more and more concentrated in favor of the richest of the rich while those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder have seen their positions worsen.
GILLIAN B. WHITE
"Where Is All the World's Money Going?", The Atlantic, January 19, 2016