Chanakya Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Book, Wealth Of Knowledge

• Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Noble Man

• Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

  Chanakya

  Years, Religion, May

• One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

  Chanakya

  Learning, Men, Way

• Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.

  Chanakya

  Husband, Wife, Fool

• Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

  Chanakya

  Kings, Home, Practice

• He who has wealth has friends.

  Chanakya

  Wealth

• He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Wealth

• He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

  Chanakya

  Best Friend, Wife, Riches

• Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Water, Wealth

• The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Godly, Animal

• Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

  Chanakya

  Punishment, People, Administration

  "Arthashastra" by Kautilya, translated by R. Shamasastry, Book I, (Ch. 4), 1915.

• Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Wife, Body

• Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Noble, Birth

• Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Body, Merit

• A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Purpose, Wealth

• O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Sweet, Men

• For the protection of state and welfare of the people, a ruler shold collect all types of wealth. By suing devices of sama, dama , danda, bheda , he shold increase income of the state, strong administration helps in collecting different type of taxes fro exchequer.

  Chanakya

  Strong, People, Political

• A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

  Chanakya

  Fate, Men, Political

• Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Excellence, Ornaments

• The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.

  Chanakya

  Religious, World, Duration

• He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

  Chanakya

  Mother, Men, Light

• As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

  Chanakya

  Water, Tanks, Charity

• Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

  Chanakya

  Men, Sometimes, Wealth

• Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.

  Chanakya

  Ignorance, Punishment, Dwelling

  "Arthashastra". Book by Chanakya, Translated by R. Shamasastry. Bangalore: Government Press, Book I: "Concerning Discipline", Chapter 4 "Determination of the Place of Varta and of Dandaniti", 1915.

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