Wealth Quotes - Page 12

• Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

  Lester Roloff

  Church, Care, Rich

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• I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Government, Long

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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  Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

  John Steinbeck

  Roots, America, Usa

  Attributed in "A Short History of Progress" by Ronald Wright, Toronto: Anansi Press, (pp. 124), 2004.

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• Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Money, Greatest Wealth, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.113

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• A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

  T. Harv Eker

  Money, Secret, Problem

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 23, 2014

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• All wealth is the product of labor.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Fruit Of Labor, Prosperity

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• Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Spiritual, Pleasure

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• It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

  Edmund Burke

  Business, World, Prosperity

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.406, University of Chicago Press

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• Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

  Adam Smith

  Money, Labour Movement, Labor Day

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.13

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• I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

  Mark Twain

  Witty, Money, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.61, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Buying, Certain, Revenue

  "Paradoxa", 6. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 864-67,

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• It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Work, Greatest Wealth, Energy

  "Madame Sarah". Book by Cornelia Otis Skinner, p. xvi, 1966.

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• A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

  Rumi

  Heart, Silence, House

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• That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Encouragement, Business

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1330, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Funny, Health, Sleep

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• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Giving, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Dec 24, 2013

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• Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Business, Successful

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• It is 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 money can't buy.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Happiness, Leadership, Money

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.251, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Roots, Greatest Wealth

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• Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.

  Gary Reilly

  Money, Beer, Wealth And Happiness

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  Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

  Democritus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

  Barack Obama

  Growth, Development, Benefits

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Wish, Desire

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