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Quotes About Wealth

See that you give them a use value greater than the cash value you are taking from them.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
As you get capital, its increase becomes easier and more rapid.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact that there is wealth for them; and these can best be taught by showing them the way to affluence in your own person and practice.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
the basis of all advancement must be the science of getting rich.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No one ought to be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
men get rich by doing things in a Certain Way; and in order to do so, men must become able to think in a certain way.   A man's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
And further, the ability to do things in this certain way is not due solely to the possession of talent, for many people who have great talent remain poor, while other who have very little talent get rich.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
If the people have the Advancing Mind, have the Faith that they can become rich, and move forward with the fixed purpose to become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
When all the gold and silver has been dug from the earth, if man is still in such a stage of social development that he needs gold and silver, more will produced from the Formless. The Formless Stuff responds to the needs of man; it will not let him be without any good thing.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praiseworthy.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches; it is a fact which I shall demonstrate a little farther on that even the resources of the Formless Supply are at the command of the man or woman will act and think in a Certain Way.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
let every act and tone and look express the quiet assurance that you are getting rich; that you are already rich.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE IN THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH THOUGHT IS THE ONLY POWER WHICH CAN PRODUCE TANGIBLE RICHES from the formless substance. The stuff from which all things are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of form in this substance produces the form.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
A person's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual and physical unfolding -- in other words, his right to be rich.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life. And, that desire is praiseworthy. The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is uncommon. The individual who does not desire to have money enough to buy all that is desired may not be living to full potential.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will get rich, because you will make only positive impressions upon Substance;
~ Wallace D. Wattles
I've lived in this city all my life. I grew up on the Upper East Side. And when I was ten years old, I was rich, I was an aristocrat. Riding around in taxis, surrounded by comfort, and all I thought about was art and music. Now, I'm 36, and all I think about is money.
~ Wallace Shawn
There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.
~ Wallace Stegner
Money is a kind of poetry.
~ Wallace Stevens
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
~ Walt Disney
In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
~ Walter Bagehot
silence is a strategy for the maintenance of the status quo, with its unbearable distribution of power and wealth.
~ Walter Brueggemann
In his Sermon on the Mount, [Jesus] declares to his disciples: No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. (Matt. 6: 24) The way of mammon (capital, wealth) is the way of commodity that is the way of endless desire, endless productivity, and endless restlessness without any Sabbath. Jesus taught his disciples that they could not have it both ways.
~ Walter Brueggemann