Quotes About Wealth

A shnorrer knocked on the door of the rich man's house at six-thirty in the morning. The rich man cried, "How dare you wake me up so early?" "Listen," said the shnorrer, "I don't tell you how to run your business, so don't tell me how to run mine.

In the Jewish communities of Europe, learned but poor Jews were much, much more highly respected than rich but unlearned ones.

Tithing is a way to right the ship quickly. Instead of spending every dime, deny yourself a little and save ten percent of your income one month. Then just wait for an intuition of whom to give it to. You'll get one. Someone who needs an angel will cross your path, and you'll get the thrill of having the means to be of service. And again, it will just accelerate the flow of help coming back to you. You'll get more opportunities to be successful.

Thank you, Pig Keeper, Phillip said, and placed a few gold coins in the boy's hand. The boy's eyes went wide as he felt the weight of the gold,even as he absently corrected his prince. Uh, Assistant Pig Keeper, actually.

GM had assets greater than those of Argentina and revenues eight times those of New York State. (Defense Secretary Wilson had had a point in saying that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa.)

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead.

As part of the process of heroification, textbook authors treat America itself as a hero, indeed as the hero of their books, so they remove its warts. Even to report the facts of income and wealth distribution might seem critical of America the hero, for it is difficult to come up with a theory of social justice that can explain why 1 percent of the population controls almost 40 percent of the wealth.

Make some money but don't let money make you. ~ Tanzanian Proverb

Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. ~ Swahili Proverb

The wealth which enslaves the owner isn't wealth. ~ Nigerian Proverb

Knowledge is better than riches. ~ Cameroonian Proverb

They do say money is the root of all evil. I thought that was supposed to be the love of money. There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.

The people shall further be graded according to wealth, and—humorous touch this—the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting shall be his reward; the more he work in the out-of-doors, the thinner his clothing shall be; the more his labor filthy him, the less water shall he have to wash

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Money is the best recipe for happiness.

Es una verdad mundialmente reconocida que un hombre soltero, poseedor de una gran fortuna, necesita una esposa.