Money & Finance: Wealth Quotes

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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"All wealth is the product of labor"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"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, Economist

Adam Smith

"Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

Gloria Steinem

"The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who, though he has millions, is covetous"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

Orison Swett Marden

"All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready"

Michelle Wie, Athlete

Michelle Wie

"If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it"

Michelle Wie, Athlete

Michelle Wie

"The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

Julia Gillard

"Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun"

Robert Burton, Writer

"The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"A great fortune is a great slavery"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people"

Donald Trump, Businessman

Donald Trump

"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it"

Socrates, Philosopher

Socrates

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

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

John D. Rockefeller

"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"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, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

Miguel de Cervantes

"The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely, have been the fertile source of their possessions"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

Charles Babbage

"Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the Eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen"

Chuck Norris, Actor

Chuck Norris

"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go"

Humphrey Bogart, Actor

Humphrey Bogart

"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

Alan Watts

"The more you own, the more you know you don't own"

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

Aristotle Onassis

"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

Douglas William Jerrold

"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

Andrew Carnegie

"Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you"

Jordan Belfort, Author

Jordan Belfort

"We're bigger than U.S. Steel"

Meyer Lansky, Criminal

Meyer Lansky

"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

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