Quotes about wealth




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"A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel."

Proverb, Spanish on wealth    Share


"A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny."

Proverb, Yiddish on wealth
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"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."

Rand, Ayn on wealth
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"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it."

Rivarol, Antoine on wealth    Share

"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"

Rockefeller, John D. on wealth    Share

"Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again."

Rodman, Frances on wealth
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"Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration."

Rohn, Jim on wealth    Share

"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."

Roosevelt, Theodore on wealth    Share

"As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on wealth    Share

"What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money."

Ruskin, John on wealth    Share

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."

Seneca on wealth    Share

"The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on wealth    Share

"What a lot of things there are a man can do without."

Socrates on wealth    Share

"Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces."

Solon on wealth    Share

"He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine."

Taylor, Jeremy on wealth    Share

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

Thoreau, Henry David on wealth
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"Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul."

Thoreau, Henry David on wealth    Share

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

Thoreau, Henry David on wealth    Share

"What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on wealth    Share

"This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous."

Trine, Ralph Waldo on wealth    Share

"A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune."

Unknown, Source on wealth    Share

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"Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth."

Unknown, Source on wealth    Share

"How much money is enough?"

Unknown, Source on wealth    Share

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

Unknown, Source on wealth    Share

"Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health."

Unknown, Source on wealth    Share

"Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty."

Unknown, Source on wealth    Share

"Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them."

Venning, R. on wealth    Share

"Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married"

Wall Street Journal on wealth    Share

"Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money."

Wicker, John on wealth    Share

"Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth."

Wilde, Oscar on wealth    Share

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."

Wilde, Oscar on wealth
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"He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies."

Wirt, W. on wealth    Share

"I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts."

Young, Andrew on wealth    Share

"Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more."

Young, Andrew on wealth    Share

"One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater than the distance from 3 million to 5 million."

Parslow, Eric on wealth    Share

""wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold"."

Euripides on wealth    Share

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