Quotes About Wealth

As we discussed in Chapter 1, the path to wealth necessitates certain sacrifices. One of the most significant sacrifices involves diverting windfalls, such as bonuses or unexpected monetary gains, away from immediate luxuries and into savings or investments.

You must value the possibilities that wealth can offer you more than the pleasures that money can buy you.

College graduates spend 16 years gaining skills that will help them command a higher salary, yet little or no time is spent helping them save, invest and grow their money." – Vince Shorb –

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason:

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi:

The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach:

The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins:

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel:

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko:

Defense is superior to opulence.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eyes is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

As billionaire investor Warren Buffett famously put it: "Actually, there's been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.

They forget that government revenues derive from confiscation, rather than production.

the time spent on social media was negatively correlated with the amount of money in one's bank account and positively correlated with the amount of body fat on one's person

Morao sam, naravno, da izigravam ?udljivog osobenjaka. Ali bogatašima to lepo pristaje.

Even with millions you can't control time.