quotations about wealth
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
The great thing about having been poor is how liberated it makes you if you eventually become rich. There's nothing like the knowledge that you don't need money to survive. That the money cushion you lie on every night doesn't have to be three feet thick, and you can still get to sleep.
BILL MAHER
"The Great Thing About Having Been Poor", HuffPost, March 1, 2012
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Friends mostly test other's prosperity by their own; all wealth is but comparison of wealth.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
If a country is rich but all its wealth is concentrated among a small class of elite billionaires, society as a whole might be miserable.
PHIL TORRES
"We're No. 16! Why Donald Trump's boorish American exceptionalism is so wrong", Salon, January 30, 2016
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
"A Chapter of Erie", North American Review, July 1869
I don't believe in riches, but you should see where I live.
BONO
"God Part II"
Riches are not an end of life but an instrument of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
When markets are flourishing, jobs are plentiful and plenty of opportunities exist for you to add to your wealth, looking after your wealth is relatively simple.
DAWN RIDLER
"How to restructure your investment portfolio as #Zupta destroys SA wealth -- expert tips", Biz News, April 10, 2017
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
Vridda-Chanakya