Wealth Quotes
3042 Wealth quotes by 1723 unique authors
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The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the…
— Edmund Burke
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People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team,…
— Martina Navratilova
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
— Vance Packard
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The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the…
— John Flavel
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Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.
— John Flavel
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Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.
— Thomas Brooks
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Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God…
— Thomas Adams
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Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they…
— Martin Luther
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The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.
— Martin Luther
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And as men diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the world than they…
— John Owen
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The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.
— John Owen
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I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our…
— William Wilberforce
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It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.
— Thomas Chalmers
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Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
— Karl Marx
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There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money
— Tertullian
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Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
— Dante Alighieri
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No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far…
— Hudson Taylor
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Never seek illicit wealth.
— Confucius
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The personal wealth that's coming is absolutely secondary to the stories that I hear about our users who have given themselves some financial independence as…
— Pierre Omidyar
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The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or,…
— Eustace Budgell
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I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
— Herman Wouk
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