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Quotes about wealth

By Iloabuchi Benedict NnakeePublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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He who restraints his desires is always rich." (Voltaire)

"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money." (Aristotle Onassis)

"Pay attention to the small things in the world, that makes life richer and more satisfying." (Carl Hilty)

"You only become rich through the things you don't desire." (Mahatma Gandhi)

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Many roads lead to wealth, and most of them are dirty." (Peter Rosegger)

"When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money." (Michael Ende)

"Only when the last tree is cleared, the last river poisoned, the last fish caught, will you realize that money cannot be eaten." (The Cree)

"The most precious things in life are not those you get for money." (Albert Einstein)

"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor." (Seneca)

"Good is wealth when there is no guilt attached to it." (Jesus Sirach)

"To have what you want is wealth, but doing it without wealth is power." (George Bernard Shaw)

"As wealth grows, worry follows." (Horace)

"They are rich who have true friends." (Thomas Fuller)

"Money alone does not make you unhappy." (Peter Falk)

"It's often perceived as unfair that people who have straw on the brain also have money like hay." (Gerhard Uhlenbruck)

"There are people who are as stingy with their mind like others with their money." (Ludwig Börne)

"The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not everyone's greed." (Mahatma Gandhi)

"Wealth alone does not make happiness on earth." (Albert Lortzing)

"Nothing makes a man more intolerable than his consciousness of having enough money for a good lawyer." (Richard Widmark)

"If a person claims that everything can be achieved with money, you may be sure that he has never had any." (Aristotle Onassis)

"But possession brings friends. I admit that; but false ones, and it procures them not for you but for itself." (Erasmus of Rotterdam)

"Noble men regard their intellectual as well as their material wealth as an entrusted possession." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

"If you have enough money, the good reputation comes naturally." (Erich Kästner)

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else." (Oscar Wilde)

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

"If not to make the world better, what is money for?" (Elizabeth Taylor)

"To have money is a glory as long as you haven't lost the joy of things that money can't buy." (Salvador Dali)

"Standard of living is trying to afford today what you won't have enough money for even ten years from now." (Danny Kaye)

"You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy." (George Bernard Shaw)

"It's not through inventions but through improvements that fortunes are made." (Henry Ford)

"Money is the best bait to fish for man with." (Thomas Fuller)

"The poor never imputes generosity as a virtue to the rich." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

"Money is not important. But a lot of money is something else." (George Bernard Shaw)

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." (Henry David Thoreau)

"Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom." (Thomas Carlyle)

"If you have no money, you always think about money. If you have money, you already think only about money." (Jean Paul Getty)

"What the good Lord thinks about money is visible through the people to whom he gives it." (Peter Bamm)

"Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank." (Bertolt Brecht)

"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor." (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

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