Wealthy Quotes
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Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."
bion of borysthenes— As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 50.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin— Meaning: "A lifestyle that involves neither staying up late nor sleeping late is good for body and mind and leads to financial success."
— Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 70. Retrieved on 5 September 2013.
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1735 edition), "October"
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don’t just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.
Anton Chekhov— Episode from a Practice
Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class – and so tenaciously withheld from the working women – brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.
margaret sanger— "Morality and Birth Control", February-March, 1918, pp. 11,14.
We do not have monarchies by divine right, we do not lack influential and wealthy clergy, we do not want rich families between the crown and the people. What we are looking for is equal rights for the people, and uniform distribution of goods. It is time for democratizing the right to property.
francisco luís gomes— A Liberdade da Terra e a Economia Rural da India Portuguesa (1862), Introduction. Quoted by Teotonio R. de Souza in Essays in Goan history (1989), p. 137
Treasury Secretary Brady didn't like the Fed either. He and the president were friends and had a lot in common-both were wealthy, Yale educated patricians and members of Skull and Bones.
Alan Greenspan— Chapter Five, "Black Monday", p. 119
He is wealthy enough, that wanteth not: he is great enough, that is his own master: he is happy enough, that lives to die well.
joseph hall— Three Centuries of Meditations and Vowes century III, LIX.
I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.
ernest hemingway— Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1 July 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.
robert e. howard— From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (1931)
Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.
j. d. salinger— Chapter 1 (The Catcher in the Rye (1951))
The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better.
jean-baptiste say— Book III, On Consumption, Chapter VI, Section II, p. 439
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
james thurber— "The Shrike and the Chipmunks", The New Yorker (18 February 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Because it is derived from Benjamin Franklin's famous saying this is often misquoted as: Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
God, I love the "fine morality" of the wealthy and powerful. You'll spill tears over your own, in a heartbeat. And then never even look twice at people below you, whose very lives are ground under every day, day after day, year after year.
david weber— quote from W.E.B. Du Havel
A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.
pierre stephen robert payne— Pierre Stephen Robert Payne, The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America, A Vision of the Uncorrupted Society, p. 284 (1975)
"Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy."
samuel p. huntington— The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991)
Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.
ibn khaldun— Arguing in favor of proto-economic liberalism
[W]hen Karl Marx, the most consistent translator of the altruist morality into practical action and political theory, advocated a society where all would be sacrificed to all, starting with the immediate immolation of the able, the intelligent, the successful and the wealthy whatever opposition he did encounter, nobody opposed him on moral grounds. Predominantly, he was granted the status of a noble, but impractical, idealist .
karl marx— Ayn Rand (1961) For the New Intellectual, NY: Signet
The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.
czesław miłosz— "The Fall" (1975), trans. Czes?aw Mi?osz and Lillian Vallee
Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks -- most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -- now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.
Michael Moore— Speech delivered at Wisconsin Capitol in Madison (5 March 2011) Claim found to be "true" by PolitiFact and others.
A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.
pierre stephen robert payne— Pierre Stephen Robert Payne, The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America, A Vision of the Uncorrupted Society, p. 284 (1975)
The wealthy are different than you and I: they have many more ways of having their wealth stripped away.
— Chapter 7, Misbehavior, p. 179 (The Four Pillars of Investing (2002))
Though the Nizams who came after Asif Jha I still were wealthy, they were not capable administrators and policy-makers like the first Nizam. So, they were slowly subordinated by the growing French and British powers on the peninsula.
— S. Ravi, in An African Indian Community in Hyderabad: Siddi Identity, Its Maintenance and Change by Ababu Minda Yimene
Extreme poverty, the increasing availability of high-speed internet and the existence of a vast and comparatively wealthy overseas customer base has led to organised crime groups exploiting children for financial gain.
— The National Crime Agency, quoted on BBC News, "Philippines web abuse ring smashed in UK-led operation", January 15, 2014.
Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."
— As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 50.
Allah has imposed fasting so that the wealthy might suffer hunger and be kind to the poor.
— al-Shaykh al-Sad?q, Man l? Yahdharul Faq?h, vol.2, p.43
