Wealth Quotes

Today I’m just going to present some quotes on Wealth. Wealth can be measured in many ways. These words of wisdom can inspire you.

“That’s why they call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

“I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe its relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?”

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down”

“Keep you best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens.”

“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”

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

“If you’ve got a dollar and you spend 29¢ on a loaf of bread, you’ve got 71¢ left; But if you’ve got 17 grand and you spend 29¢ on a loaf of bread, you’ve still got 17 grand. There’s a math lesson for you.”

“Wealth without work…

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice.”

“Don’t gain the world & lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.”

“We got so much food in America we’re allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain’t allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda’s got a fucking lactose intolerance?!”

“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hour each.”

“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sittingon a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife’s slain body in his arms.”

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”

“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”

“I just bought a small condo overlooking the water. The water is in a cup, one floor below my unit.”

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”

“I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.”

“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else’s mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one’s own place and economy.

In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less and less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, and shares. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced or placeless citizenship and by commerce witnh impersonal and self-interested suppliers…

Thus, although we are not slaves in name, and cannot be carried to market and sold as somebody else’s legal chattels, we are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk about liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are free to make. What would be the point, for example, if a majority of our people decided to be self-employed?

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local econmies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”

“Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to a support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper.”

“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.”

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

“Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling”

“The rich old men start the wars, but it’s the poor young men who portend them. If they didn’t get old and rich, some excuse might have to be found to launch invasions.”