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A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.
~ John Jacob Astor ~
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
~ Francis Bacon ~
Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]
~ Bible ~
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
~ Josh Billings ~
The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
~ Humphrey Bogart ~
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
~ Edmund Burke ~
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
~ William Henry Channing ~
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
~ Charles Caleb Colton ~
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
~ Daniel Defoe ~
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
~ Democritus ~
He that is rich is wise.
~ Daniel Depoe ~
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith ~
No one should be rich except those who understand it.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
~ Oliver Goldsmith ~
I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.
~ John P. Lippett ~
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
~ Lucretius ~
You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.
~ Cynthia Pearl Maus ~
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
~ Wilson Mizner ~
'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.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ~
Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
~ Ovid ~
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
~ Charles Peguy ~
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
~ Plato ~
Where there are friends there is wealth.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus ~
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
~ Alexander Pope ~
As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
~ Proverb ~
A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.
~ Arabian Proverb ~
Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.
~ Italian Proverb ~
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
~ Spanish Proverb ~
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
~ Ayn Rand ~
Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.
~ Frances Rodman ~
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
~ Socrates ~
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
~ Source Unknown ~
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
~ R. Venning ~
Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married
~ Wall Street Journal ~
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
~ W. Wirt ~
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 ~
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