WEALTH QUOTES III

quotations about wealth

Wealth quote

Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Kabeiroi


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

NOAM CHOMSKY

Requiem for the American Dream

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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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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Doctor Thorne

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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


Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land

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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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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


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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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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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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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


Small aid is wealth for daily gladness; once a man be done with hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

EURIPIDES

Electra

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The aspiration to wealth is deeply understantable. Getting high income from a good job is all well and good, but because wealth begets more wealth -- people are compensated simply for owning things -- wealth is, potentially, forever. It persists, and spreads through families and dynasties. Wealth can, and often does, endure for generations.

STEVE ROTH

"New Data Reveal the Depressing Truth About How Wealth Is Amassed in America", AlterNet, January 6, 2017


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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Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

ARISTOPHANES

Plutus

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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