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Quotes About Wealth

To him who is without knowledge of the five laws, gold comes not often, and goeth away quickly. But to him who abide by the five laws, gold comes and works as his dutiful slave.
~ George S. Clason
Yet, who can measure in bags of gold, the value of wisdom?
~ George S. Clason
That what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.
~ George S. Clason
a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill
~ George S. Clason
Entre más sabiduría tenemos, más podemos ganar. El hombre que busca aprender más de su oficio será ricamente recompensado
~ George S. Clason
him who keepeth and spendeth not a certain part of all his earnings, shall gold come more easily. Likewise, him whose purse is empty does gold avoid.
~ George S. Clason
Every gold piece you save is a slave to work for you. Every copper it earns is its child that also can earn for you. If you would become wealthy, then what you save must earn, and its children must earn, that all may help to give to you the abundance you crave.
~ George S. Clason
A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter
~ George S. Clason
Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.
~ George S. Clason
This, my students, was the first cure I did discover for my lean purse: For each ten coins I put in, to spend but nine.
~ George S. Clason
how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of the rest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods.
~ George S. Clason
This I do to prove to thee, my father, of how much greater value I consider thy wisdom than thy gold. Yet, who can measure in bags of gold, the value of wisdom? Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it, but with wisdom, gold can be secured by those who have it not, as these three bags of gold do prove.
~ George S. Clason
A part of all I earn is mine to keep.
~ George S. Clason
I tell you, my students, a man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging.
~ George S. Clason
This, then, is the third cure for a lean purse: to put each coin to laboring that it may reproduce its kind even as the flocks of the field and help bring to thee income, a stream of wealth that shall flow constantly into thy purse.
~ George S. Clason
KIRBY: A man can't give up his business. GRANDPA: Why not? You've got all the money you need. You can't take it with you.
~ George S. Kaufman
A man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it.
~ George Samuel Clason
Viva de acordo com sua renda e não se torne mesquinho e com medo de gastar. A vida é boa e rica em coisas que valem a pena e em coisas que se possa desfrutar.
~ George Samuel Clason
Sur le mer, les hommes sont presque en dehors des lois; chez eux c'est le droit du plus fort, comme chez nous le droit du plus riche.
~ George Sand
This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way the traffic flows. Add impediments, the traffic endeavors to flow around them. Eilimate disparity. the traffic stops.
~ George Saunders
This meal we just ate? says Aunt Lydia. In many countries, this sort of meal would only be eaten by royalty. There are countries where people could live one year on what we throw out in one week, says Grandpa Kirk. I thought it was they could live one year on what we throw out in one day, says Grandma Sally. I thought it was they could live ten years on what we throw out in one minute, says Uncle Gus. Well anyway, says Doris. We are very lucky.
~ George Saunders
Oh, mansion shmansion. Did Gandhi's house have the largest outdoor trampoline in the tristate area? Did Jesus have a two-acre remote-controlled car track, with mountains to scale and a little village that lit up at night? Not in his Bible.
~ George Saunders
Even a Canadian baby with a harelip would be beyond our means.
~ George Saunders
We have SUVs and PlayStations and plenty to eat, we roam the earth expecting respect and receiving it, for we are the American Middle Class, and we shall live out the full measure of our days amidst happiness and plenty.
~ George Saunders