Quotes About Wealth

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

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.

The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering

Tengo para mí que honras y dineros casi siempre andan juntos, y que quien quiere honra no aborrece dineros, y que quien los aborrece que se le da poco de honra.

I am debt-free in Jesus' name. I attract God-inspired ideas that produce great wealth. Opportunities and resources are headed my way now, in Jesus' name." Release the power of God into your pocket book.

POSH Before air-conditioning, cabins on the side of ocean liners facing the sun became unbearably hot. Thus richer passengers paid a premium to have their tickets on the P&O Line from England to India stamped "Port Out—Starboard Home." So p.o.s.h. became a synonym for someone who was upper class. PULL

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

In a sermon titled "The Use of Money," John Wesley preached a concept that can be summarized as, "Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can."1 That's prosperity with a purpose!

Os Hillman, in his book The Purposes of Money2, writes about four potholes on the road to prosperity: 1. Greed (1 Timothy 3:3) 2. Covetousness (Exodus 20:17; 1 Timothy 3:3) 3. Stinginess (Luke 6:29) 4. Self-reliance (Galatians 2:20)

Labour had become expensive and your average lord could now make more money out of sheep than he could out of his peasants. There was more wool on sheep, for a start, and you could also eat them – which is possible with peasants but socially taboo – so the lords started to throw the expensive, troublesome and uneatable peasants off their land and replace them with sheep. The

They agreed to pay 5000 lb of gold, 30,000 of silver, 3000 scarlet sheepskins (the Goths must have been a very well turned out army) and 3000 lb of pepper (they were already, of course, well seasoned).

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

The Great Bookkeeper up in the sky has always been reluctant to give me money. Or perhaps I never learned to think big. I decided that if your demands are less than your income, you are rich, but if your demands are greater, you feel poor. The trick is to adjust your demands.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship

A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth.

He who seeks wealth sacrifices his own pleasure, and, like him who carries burdens for others, bears the load of anxiety.

Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it?these four qualities are with difficulty acquired.

Not to attend at the door of the wealthy, and not to use the voice of petition?these constitute the best life of a man.

The man who neither gives in charity nor enjoys his wealth, which every day increases, breathes, indeed, like the bellows of a smith, but cannot be said to live.

Through avarice a man loses his understanding, and by his thirst for wealth he gives pain to the inhabitants of both worlds.