Affluence Quotes

• Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

  Ray Charles

  People, Giving, Together

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.155, Da Capo Press

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• Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

  Suze Orman

  Success, Business, Home

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• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  Tacitus

  Struggle, Adversity, Miserable

  Tacitus (2016). “Strategy Six Pack 4”, p.357, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Rising, Poverty

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.46, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want.

  Deepak Chopra

  Helping Others, Want, Way

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.25, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thoughtful, People, Use

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1958). “The Affluent Society”

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• We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

  Dorothea Lange

  People, Poverty, Faces

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• But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.

  Adam Smith

  Making Money, Rich, More Money

  Adam Smith, J.R. McCulloch (1828). “Aninquiry in to the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With a Life of the Author, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and Supplemental Dissertations by J.R. McCulloch”, p.190

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• The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.

  Eliza Parsons

  Blessed, Heart, Rich

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• Affluence creates poverty.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Poverty, Poor

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.93, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

  Adam Smith

  Economics, Inequality, Wealth Of Nations

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations”, Xist Publishing

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• Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

  John Tyler

  Inspirational Life, Presidential, Saving

  First annual message to Congress, June 01, 1841.

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• Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

  Jesse Schell

  Moving, Efficient

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• "...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you'll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning "to flow with abundance". So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world."

  Russell Simmons

  Success, Business, Latin

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• What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

  Samuel Richardson

  Luxury, Drink, Hungry

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.80

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• Affluence = abundant flow.

  Eric Butterworth

  Spiritual, Flow, Spirit

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• The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it.

  Eric Butterworth

  Lying, Focus, Secret

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• With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mistake, Writing, Style

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.429

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• It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, Order, Law

  Congressional Record, vol. 107, p. 11703., June 29, 1961.

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• The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Land, Interesting, Poverty

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• My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Mistake, People, Independence

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• Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Needs, Abundance

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• No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

  William Wilberforce

  Ignorance, Men, World

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Affluence means influence.

  Jack London

  Mean, Reality, Influence

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• A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, Order, Water

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 06, 2011

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