Wealth Quotes

“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.”
― Lucy Parsons, Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937

“I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.”
― Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide

“Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.”
― P. T. BARNUM

“The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.”
― Stephen Richards

“A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“The mind is the strongest tool we have to help us secure the riches within the universe.”
― Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide

“If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.”
― Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Success In Love

“There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.”
― Joe Vigil

“The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.”
― Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide

“Thrill me, chill me I went in search of money and success, all I got was a bellyful of excess! Now that I've realigned myself I’m on my tip-toes because life is sweet! I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for all the blessings that are manifesting in my life … neat!”
― Stephen Richards

“Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.”
― David Lee Roth

“The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!”
― Stephen Richards

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.”
― Alistair Begg, Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith

“An end to questions or an end to life, she said to herself as she raced towards the unknown.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

“It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“Perhaps the answer is that it is necessary to slow down, finally giving up on economistic fanaticism and collectively rethink the true meaning of the word “wealth.” Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone’s reach. If the great majority of people could understand this basic notion, if they could be liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone’s life, the very foundations of capitalism, would start to crumble (p. 169).”
― Franco Bifo Berardi

“I think it's terrible the way people don't share things in this country. I think it's a heartless government that will let one baby be born owning a big piece of the country, the way I was born, and let another baby be born without owning anything. The least a government could do, it seems to me, is to divide things up fairly among the babies.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. ”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

“Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'.
David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich.
Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.”
― Sabrina Jeffries, Wed Him Before You Bed Him

“You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!”
― James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans

“The great fault of modern democracy -- a fault that is common to the capitalist and the socialist -- is that it accepts economic wealth as the end of society and the standard of personal happiness....

The great curse of our modern society is not so much lack of money as the fact that the lack of money condemns a man to a squalid and incomplete existence. But even if he has money, and a great deal of it, he is still in danger of leading an incomplete and cramped life, because our whole social order is directed to economic instead of spiritual ends. The economic view of life regards money as equivalent to satisfaction. Get money, and if you get enough of it you will get everything else that is worth having. The Christian view of life, on the other hand, puts economic things in second place. First seek the kingdom of God, and everything else will be added to you. And this is not so absurd as it sounds, for we have only to think for a moment to realise that the ills of modern society do not spring from poverty in fact, society today is probably richer in material wealth than any society that has ever existed. What we are suffering from is lack of social adjustment and the failure to subordinate material and economic goods to human and spiritual ones.”
― Christopher Henry Dawson, Religion and World History: A Selection from the Works of Christopher Dawson

“[I]n any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.”
― M.R.C. Kasasian, The Mangle Street Murders

“The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam.

Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air 'money' require no effort and are entirely ephemeral.

But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.”
― Chris Martenson

“If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich”
― Charles Wagner, The Simple Life

“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough.”
― Robert Skidelsky Edward Skidelsky, How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life

“Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice