Wealth Quotes And Sayings

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“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”
– Confucius

“The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.”
– Daniel Webster

“Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”
– Desiderius Erasmus

“The modern economy isn’t about the redistribution of wealth, it’s about the redistribution of time.”
– Doug Coupland

“I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don’t tend to be thrown by problems that don’t have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.”
– Drew Barrymore

“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
– Edmund Burke

“It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.”
– Edmund Burke

“If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.”
– Edward Steichen

“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”
– Emma Goldman

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”
– Epictetus

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
– Epictetus

“Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.”
– Epictetus

“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Wars are caused by undefended wealth.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.”
– Ernie Banks

“No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.”
– Euripides

“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.”
– Euripides

“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.”
– Gene Tierney

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.”
– George Eliot

“Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.”
– George Herbert

“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”
– George Orwell

“I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.”
– George Santayana

“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”
– George Santayana

“Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.”
– George W. Bush

“Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.”
– Guru Nanak

“Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.”
– H. L. Mencken

“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.”
– Henry Adams

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