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Quotes About Riches

Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
~ Napoleon Hill
When riches take the place of poverty, the change is usually brought about through well conceived and carefully executed PLANS. Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be attracted.
~ Napoleon Hill
ANYBODY can WISH for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a BURNING DESIRE for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth. Transmutation - The Tenth Step Toward Riches THE MYSTERY OF SEX: TRANSMUTATION The meaning of the word transmute is, in simple language, the changing, or transferring of one element, or form of energy, into another.
~ Napoleon Hill
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance. Never, in the history of America has there been so great an opportunity for practical dreamers as now exists. The
~ Napoleon Hill
Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles," and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure! Faith is the element, the "chemical" which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
~ Napoleon Hill
we must magnetize our minds with intense desire for riches, that we must become "money conscious until the desire for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it. But
~ Napoleon Hill
TRULY, thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects. A
~ Napoleon Hill
TRULY, thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
~ Napoleon Hill
Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be attracted.
~ Napoleon Hill
If you are one of those who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches, perish the thought! It is not true! Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.
~ Napoleon Hill
Only those who become "money conscious" ever accumulate great riches. "Money consciousness" means that the mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the DESIRE for money, that one can see one's self already in possession of it.
~ Napoleon Hill
PIENSE y HÁGASE RICO
~ Napoleon Hill
Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.
~ Napoleon Hill
at any point in time, the richest traders are often the worst traders. This, I will call the cross-sectional problem: At a given time in the market, the most successful traders are likely to be those that are best fit to the latest cycle. This does not happen too often with dentists or pianists—because these professions are more immune to randomness.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
social treadmill effect: You get rich, move to rich neighborhoods, then become poor again. To that add the psychological treadmill effect; you get used to wealth and revert to a set point of satisfaction. This problem of some people never really getting to feel satisfied by wealth (beyond a given point) has been the subject of technical discussions on happiness.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When people get rich, they shed their skin-in-the-game-driven experiential mechanism. They lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences for their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the wealthiest are to be found among those less suspected to be wealthy.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A história mostra que, para a sociedade, quanto mais ricos nos tornamos, mais difícil é viver dentro de nossas próprias posses. Temos mais dificuldade em lidar com a abundância do que com a escassez.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
we have never been richer in the history of mankind. And we have never been more in debt
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
at any point in time, the richest traders are often the worst traders.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Aside from the misperception of one's performance, there is a social treadmill effect: You get rich, move to rich neighborhoods, then become poor again. To that add the psychological treadmill effect; you get used to wealth and revert to a set point of satisfaction. This problem of some people never really getting to feel satisfied by wealth (beyond a given point) has been the subject of technical discussions on happiness.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One of life's machinations is to make some people both rich and unhappy, that is, jointly fragile and deprived of hope.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Croesus, King of Lydia, was considered the richest man of his time. To this day Romance languages use the expression "rich as Croesus" to describe a person of excessive wealth.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
that wealth leads to the rise of education
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb