wealth quotes

• Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. (Andrew Carnegie) [wealth/trust]
• He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. ( Socrates) [content/content/wealth/nature]
• When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions. (Hannah Arendt) [wealth/happiness/speech]
• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. ( Aristotle) [health/wealth/wisdom]
• Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. (Francis Bacon) [wealth/rest]
• Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. (Claude M. Bristol) [source/wealth]
• It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. (Edmund Burke) [interest/wealth]
• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. (Edmund Burke) [wealth/wealth]
• This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community --the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. (Andrew Carnegie) [wealth/provide/trust/matter]
• The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor. (Andrew Carnegie) [day/wealth/life/willpower]
• Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. (Andrew Carnegie) [wealth/trust]
• A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. (Robert Cecil) [men/wealth]
• He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. (Miguel De Cervantes) [wealth/more/courage]
• The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. (Miguel De Cervantes) [wealth/application]
• Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. (Charles Caleb Colton) [mistake/power/wealth/power]
• It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. (Charles Caleb Colton) [wealth]
• 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) [wealth/thing/more]
• In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of. ( Confucius) [wealth]
• We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. (John Dewey) [health/wealth//action]
• Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. (Benjamin Disraeli) [teach/wealth/beauty]
• Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. (George Eliot) [life/wealth]
• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. -- (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [art/wealth/trace/housing]
• There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [time/wealth/wisdom]
• The first wealth is health. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [wealth/health]
• Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [wealth/ugly]
• 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) [wealth/mind/nature/art]
• There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. (Benjamin Franklin) [wealth/war/cheating/god]
• He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him. (Benjamin Franklin) [wealth]
• The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality. (Benjamin Franklin) [wealth/words]
• Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. (Benjamin Franklin) [wealth]
• Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [wealth/intelligence]

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