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 | "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy and
dead." | |
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James Thurber
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| "Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that
which he has given away." | |
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Proverb
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| "He does not believe that does not live according to his
belief." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "He is wise that is wise to himself." | |
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Euripides
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| "I am absolutely convinced that no amount of wealth in the world can
help humanity move forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker.
The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead
us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and
irresistably invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi
armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?" | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me
the position." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people
upon great wealth." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "I"d like to live as a poor man with lots of money." | |
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Pablo Picasso
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| "If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until
it is known how he employs it." | |
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Socrates
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| "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." | |
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The Bible
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| "Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the
better." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other
men." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the
fewness of my wants." | |
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J. Brotherton
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| "People want riches; they need fulfillment." | |
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Robert Conklin
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| "PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the
decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B
and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be
worshiped." | |
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John Calvin Coolidge
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| "Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one." | |
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Eugene Victor Debs
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| "Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to
administer in his lifetime for the good of the community." | |
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Andrew Carnegie
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| "There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot
give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the
thought of fame; those that cleave to power cannot give the handle of it
to others. While they hold their grasp of those things, they are afraid of
losing them. When they let them go, they are grieved and they will not look
at a single example, from which they might perceive the folly of their
restless pursuits ? such men are under the doom of heaven." | |
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Chuang Tzu
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| "To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave
as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay
sober." | |
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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| "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already done." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary,
although it has often been made, has never proved widely
persuasive." | |
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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| "Wealth is the ability to fully experience life." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Wealth is the sinews of affairs. (business transactions)" | |
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Bion
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| "Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity
for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a
real degredation to make no effort to overcome." | |
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Thucydides
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| "Wealth unused might as well not exist." | |
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Aesop
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