Quotes on Wealth
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Jim Rohn
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Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John Rockefeller
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The trouble for most people is they don’t decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.
Michael Masterson
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The way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; i.e. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets (necessary expenses excepted), will certainly become rich.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually destitute, that is exactly what you will be.
Robert Collier
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I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.
J. Paul Getty
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If we fasten our attention on what we have, rather than on what we lack, a very little wealth is sufficient.
Francis Johnson
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
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The ascending spiral of greatness in America has risen because industry has produced wealth, which in turn has supported educational institutions, which in turn have supplied leadership to industry in order that with each succeeding generation it might produce more wealth.
Wallace Bennett
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The old thought that one cannot be rich except at the expense of his neighbor must pass away. True prosperity adds to the richness of the whole world, such as that of the man who makes two trees grow where only one grew before. The parasitical belief in prosperity as coming by the sacrifices of others has no place in the mind that thinks true.
Anne Miltz
"My benefit is your benefit, your success is my success," should be the basis of all our wealth.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
John Galsworthy
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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. Production, not destruction, leads to success.
John Wicker
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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
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Wealth is the product of industry, ambition, character and untiring effort.
Calvin Coolidge
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So long as wealth is made the means and not the end, we need not greatly fear it.
Calvin Coolidge
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering, and more sagacious.
John Ruskin
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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
George Clason
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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham
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Entrusting the government or an employer, other than yourself, with your retirement income is like hiring a compulsive gambler as your accountant.
Denis Waitley
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If you will use what you have, you will be given more to use.
Zig Ziglar
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
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The most expensive piece of real estate is the six inches between your right and left ear. It’s what you create in that area that determines your wealth. We are only really limited by our mind.
Dolph de Roos
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It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
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Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions, but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.
Nido Qubein
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Truth is, money doesn’t make you happy or a nice person, it just means you have the means to live the life you want. What kind of life is up to you, and that’s where some people crash and burn. They get money but they don’t have a clue about being a good person so they just make themselves and everyone around them miserable.
Phil Town
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What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
Seneca
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No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
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We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your money a dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures. You can't buy much of value a dollar at a time.
Jim Rohn
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People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see life as a pie. When another person gets a big piece, then they get less. Such people are always trying to get even, to pull others down to their level so they can get an equal or even bigger piece of the pie.
Stephen Covey
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Pay your taxes first, yourself second, and everyone else after that.
Larry Winget
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting all working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds. Nor should this lead us to a war on property, or the owners of property. Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
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For the most part, income is a result of one's productivity and the value that people place on that productivity.
Walter E. Williams
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All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.
Brian Tracy
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If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
Chilo
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Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product of human creativity in an environment of freedom. The freedom to own, to make contracts, to save, to invest, to associate, and to trade: these are the key to prosperity.
Lew Rockwell
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There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Napoleon Hill
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Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
Napoleon Hill
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A man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging.
George Clason
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It is neither wealth, nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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Rather to go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
Charles Dickens
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Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.
Stephen Covey
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"If only I had more money" is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.
Timothy Ferriss
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
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Decide on a way of life and then earn the money to finance it – don’t do it the other way around.
Fred Smith
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Have more than thou showest; speak less than thou knowest.
William Shakespeare
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
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The only way to increase everyone's standard of living is by increasing the amount of capital per worker. Additional capital makes workers more productive, which means they can produce more goods than before. When our economy becomes physically capable of producing vastly more goods, their abundance makes them more affordable in terms of dollars (if the Federal Reserve isn't inflating the money supply). Soaking the rich works for only so long: the rich eventually wise up and decide to hide their income, move away, or stop working so much. But investing in capital makes everyone better off. It is the only way we can all become wealthier. We are wealthier today because our economy is physically capable of producing so much more at far lower costs. And that's why, just from a practical point of view, it is foolish to levy taxes along any step of this process, because doing so sabotages the only way wealth can be created for everyone.
Ron Paul
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Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.
Charlie Munger
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If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.
Charlie Munger
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Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
Charlie Munger
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
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So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
A. J. Materi
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Learn to live a life of honest poverty, if you must, and turn to more important matters than transporting gold to your grave.
Anonymous
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Wealth, like anything else, has a point of diminishing returns. Furthermore, that point arrives sooner than the non-wealthy think.
John T. Reed
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Anyone entering our homes should admire us rather than our furnishings. It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great. Finding wealth an intolerable burden is the mark of an unstable mind.
Seneca
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Suppose he has a beautiful home and a handsome collection of servants, a lot of land under cultivation and a lot of money out at interest; not one of these things can be said to be in him - they are just things around him. Praise in him what can neither be given nor snatched away, what is peculiarly a man's. You ask what that is? It is his spirit, and the perfection of his reason in that spirit. For man is a rational animal. Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he was born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy - that he live in accordance with his own nature.
Seneca
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But first we have to reject the life of pleasures; they make us soft and womanish; they are insistent in their demands, and what is more, require us to make insistent demands on fortune. And then we need to look down on wealth, which is the wage of slavery. Gold and silver and everything else that clutters our prosperous homes should be discarded. Freedom cannot be won without sacrifice. If you set a high value on her, everything else must be valued at little.
Seneca
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Once you can take care of yourself and your family and everything you need, beyond that it's [wealth] a bunch of claim checks. If you think about money, it's a claim check on other people's products and services. When you've got enough to take care of yourself, more claim checks don’t do you any good. But they can do a lot of good for all kinds of other people.
Warren Buffett
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The secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.
John Templeton
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The happiest people I know are those who give away their money. The saddest are those who hold their possessions in their hearts instead of their hands, or who hoard because they fear what the future may bring.
Truett Cathy
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[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
Richard Feynman
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No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.
Richard Feynman
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If a person's scale of values is based primarily on material wealth, that person will be in difficulty all of his or her life. Do not pay much attention to fame, power and money. Some day you will meet a person who cares for none of these, and then you will know how poor you are.
Rudyard Kipling
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