Wealth Quotes

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
Ali bin Abu-Talib



The best wealth is the one by which the honour of man is protected.
Ali al-Rida



The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
Karl Georg Bchner



All true wealth is biological.
Lois McMaster Bujold



True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.
George Aiken



Whoever is not diligent in his work, will suffer; who- ever has no share of God in his wealth and in his life then there is no place for him in His Realm.
Ali bin Abu-Talib



Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
Aristotle



The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
Aristotle



Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Thomas Haynes Bayly



The wealth ov a person should be estimated, not bi the amount he haz, but bi the use he makes ov it.
Henry Wheeler Shaw



Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."
Bion of Borysthenes



Ah woe is me, through all my days Wisdom and wealth I both have got, And fame and name and great mens praise; But Love, ah! Love I have it not.
Henry Cuyler Bunner



Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie



To help a man suffering from dropsy, it's far better to cure his thirst than to offer him a barrel of wine. Apply this principle to the wealthy.
Nicolas Chamfort



In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov





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