Wealth Quotes - Page 6

• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Success, Brother, Native American

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• Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Money, Children, Character

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• There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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• My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.

  Michael Milken

  Motivational, Money, Passion

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Money, Philosophical, Riches

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Excess, Enough

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.795

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• You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.

  Randy Alcorn

  Missionary, Missions, Missions And Prayer

  FaceBook post by Randy Alcorn from Aug 12, 2016

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• He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Men, Dollars, Poor

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• Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

  Billy Sunday

  Riches, Given

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• Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.

  Sam Storms

  Inferiors, Without God

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• What wealth have you, if you have not got Christ? If Christ is the object before you, will all the things that fret you take Christ from you? All the things you long for, will they give you more of Christ?

  George Wigram

  Long, Giving, Christ

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• Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Perseverance, Yield, Perserverance

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

  Laurence J. Peter

  Jobs, Giving, Poverty

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• The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

  John D. Rockefeller

  Money, Business, Luxury

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Luxury, Aristocracy, Ruins

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.387

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• Controlled time is our true wealth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, True Wealth, Controlled

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1963). “Nine Chains to the Moon”

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• 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Power, May, Riches

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.114, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

  Andrew Young

  Gay, Giving, Mind

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• If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Money, Business, Goal

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.

  Dale Carnegie

  Simple, Symphony, Simplicity

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• Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

  Charlie Munger

  Tragedy, Faster, Get Rich

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• In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

  Anatole France

  Democracy, Sacred Things, States

  L'Ile des pingouins (Penguin Island, 1908) pt. 6, ch. 2

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• The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

  Robert Breault

  Honesty, Treasure, Littles

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• As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Country, Rights, Law

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• In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming generations will think that our form of world trade and distribution of the world's benefits were just as inconceivable and inhuman.

  Erik Dammann

  Thinking, Doubt, Generations

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