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Wealth Quotes


"You only ever have three things: 1) your self, wellbeing and mindset 2) Your life network, resources and resourcefulness 3) Your reputation and goodwill. Treasure and tend the first. Value, support and build the second. And mindfully, wisely ensure that the third (your life current and savings account) is always in credit."


"All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed."


"Money as the sole ambition has no value."


"Money isn't everything.''The only people who say that are people who have enough money to pay the rent."


"But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams."


"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."


"Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it."


"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."


"When God gives you wealth, it is not a blessing; it is a test. He wants to test your faith in Him plus your desire and willingness to share. Be careful with the love of money."


"I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it."


"Two things a wise man never discloses to the public, his money and his women."


"When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes."


"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."


"When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit."


"Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness."



"People who want to make a million borrow a million first."


"It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth."


"On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom."


"To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober."



"Riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep's clothing, pretending to be security against anxieties, and they become then the object of anxiety. They secure a man against anxieties just about as well as the wolf that is put to tending the sheep."


"I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it."


"No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary."


"The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician."


"I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly."


"What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough."


"Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flourishing sign of God's specifically American favor, made manifest in the uncountable millions of Carnegie and Mellon and Henry Ford and Catholina Lambert. But amid this fabled plenty the whiff of damnation had cleared of dollars and cents the parched ground around Clarence Wilmot."


"I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."


"He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that."


"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy."


"We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth."



"An Indian's wealth Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save."


"Wealth is relative. Some people aren't really rich, they just have poor neighbors."
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