WEALTH QUOTES V

quotations about wealth

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


Wealth builders stay motivated and inspire others to keep on keeping on.

KEN DOGHUDJE

"Forget about building wealth if you don't have these 14 skills and abilities", NAIJ, January 29, 2016


When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.

GEORGE ADE

"The Through Train", Knocking the Neighbors


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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We may see the small value God has for riches by the people he gives them to.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"

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Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed;
Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold
Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty.
For men, however strong or beautiful,
Generally follow the train of a richer man.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

JOHN GREEN

"The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes", YouTube

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Many people dream of inheriting a large sum of money. We spend time imagining the cars we will buy, the homes we will live in and the holidays we will take once we hit "the good times". However, most wealth advisers will tell you that those who inherit money face many challenges -- not least of which is maintaining this wealth and not squandering, in a short space of time, what may have taken generations to accrue.

JACQUES BROWN

"Inherited wealth is not an easy windfall", iAfrica, March 24, 2017


Successfully navigating wealth is a bit like flying a jetliner -- two, well-matched wings are required. One strong and one weak wing won't do; failure of either wing is catastrophic. In many families that flounder, the "planning wing" has received disproportionate attention -- trusts are established, advisors are in place, tax strategies are adopted and investment approaches are calibrated. The planning is superb. But, these complex structures comprise only one wing of the plane, and the other is equally important: family "culture."

MATTHEW WESLEY

"Wealth Planning Structures Must Match Family Cultures", Wealth Management, April 5, 2017


A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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Almost every wealthy man in this country will tell you that his greatest satisfaction and happiest days were when he was emerging from poverty into a competency; when he first felt the tonic from the swelling of his small savings towards the stream of fortune, and knew that want would no longer dog his steps.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

The Miracle of Right Thought

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I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Riches", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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Those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd


Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G. K. CHESTERTON

A Miscellany of Men

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