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BASIC LIFE ATTRIBUTESFour purusharthas or goals of the life be,So very crystal clear in life undisputedly;1Artha getting useful wealth and prosperity,Finding the meaning for living herein truly;2Kama fulfilling desires, acting repeatedly,It the physical, material desire fulfillment be;14Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be,Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;25Moksha – the liberation from the web of maya be,Freedom from the cycles of birth and death clearly;33As all the rivers must lead to the sea eventually,All spiritual paths leading to the same goal finally;43And all of the variety of life are created certainly,By combination of the three Gunas undisputedly.44
— Munindra Misra, Goals of Life
Happiness is a true wealth, which no money can buy.
— Alon Calinao Dy, Best Love Poems Collection
Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.
— Kasie West, The Distance Between Us
It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.
— Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
To me, the simplest gift that a husband or a wife can do for their partner is to remind them of their precious visions, goals and dreams. What a gift that is to have a voice of reason right in your corner when you sometimes need a little nudge to get back on track. To have a team player to cheer you on and to support your efforts is indeed a massive present from the universe. Whomever has such a gift should surely treasure and protect it for all its worth. It's worth is invaluable to the world.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, The Art of Manifesting Abundance
I know what it is to be in need and what it is to have more than enough. I have learnt this secret, so that anywhere, at any time, I am content, whether I am full or hungry, whether I have too much or too little. I have the strength to face all conditions by the power that Christ gives me.
— Anonymous, THE HOLY BIBLE - The Authorized King James Version (Special Illustrated Anniversary Edition) : Best Selling Bible of All Time KJV - With Interactive Table ...
Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in a far valley off a handful of ewes and two low yield cows. But we live, I say. You children all lived; your sisters now have sturdy children in far-off districts. And what you are now carrying under your heart will also live and be welcome, little one, despite arithmetic and scholarly books.
— Halldór Laxness, The Atom Station
Poor people do not go on holiday
—  they go home.
I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit...DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing.
— Brandi L. Bates, Soledad
Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.
— Saji Ijiyemi, Don't Die Sitting
A rich man loves to work, a poor man loves to eat.
— Dương Thu Hương, Paradise of the Blind
How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?
— M.B. Dallocchio
Time is the ultimate form of socialism. Each receives the same amount equally, yet how we manage our time is reflected by our lives. We all can agree, no one comes out equal. For a country to govern by socialism will fail as there will always be the weak and strong. Social justice is fantasy. Nothing can be equal in the end if we have true freedom to choose our own fate. In place of socialism, a government should rule by protection. Protecting the freedoms of each citizen, each of us can choose his own destiny. Some may choose material happiness, while others may choose immaterial joy
— Donald Mol
The limitations you embrace become your life. Choose to be limitless!
— Jo Ana Starr
Your beliefs create your world.
— Jo Ana Starr
God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs are met at every moment of time and point of space; there is always a divine surplus.
— Joseph Murphy
A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.
— Gautama Buddha
You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.
— Amit Kalantri
Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
Wealth should never be your goal in life. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society. He believed that government existed by the consent of the governed, not by divine right. But the reason government is necessary is to defend private property, to keep people from stealing from each other. This idea appealed to the wealthy for an obvious reason: they wanted to keep their wealth. From the perspective of the poor, things look decidedly different. The rich are able to accumulate wealth by taking the labor of the poor and by turning the commons into privately owned commodities; therefore, defending the accumulation of wealth in a system that has no other moral constraints is in effect defending theft, not protecting against it.
— Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet
...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble.
— Amit Kalantri
Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Money can buy some things to create happiness, but it can never buy happiness.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".
— Amit Kalantri
Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.
— Peter Singer, Marx: A Very Short Introduction
Just as someone obsessed with becoming a millionaire focuses on gaining riches and can miss out on living a fun, balanced life, so someone obsessed with being enlightened or being totally free of all difficulties can also miss out on life. Far healthier to just live a mindful, balanced life and fully participate in what life has to offer.
— Shamash Alidina
When everything gets too much, give some away
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.
— Amit Kalantri
Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful, difficult. It is easier to store than oil, more esoteric than diamonds, more durable than political influence.
— Nick Paumgarten
The real measure of your "wealth" is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
With some money in your pocket you walk confidently, you talk confidently and you work confidently.
— Amit Kalantri
You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy.
— Amit Kalantri
Rich or poor it’s nice to have money
— Alan Sheinwald, Alan Sheinwald is Building a Perfect Home
I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you.
— Sherman Alexie, Flight
It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.
— Shannon L. Alder
Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.
— Aesop, Aesop's Fables
It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.
— Murray N. Rothbard
For the prosperous, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
— T. Harv Eker
They wonder much to hear that gold which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has value, should yet be thought of less value than this metal. That a man of lead, who has no more sense than a log of wood, and is as bad as he is foolish, should have many wise and good men to serve him, only because he has a great heap of that metal...
— Thomas More, Utopia
If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to bring them, but merely to please themselves with the contemplation of it, enjoy any true pleasure in it? The delight they find is only a false shadow of joy. Those are no better whose error is somewhat different from the former, and who hide it, out of their fear of losing it; for what other name can fit the hiding it in the earth, or rather the restoring to it again, it being thus cut off from being useful, either to its owner or to the rest of mankind? And yet the owner having hid it carefully, is glad, because he thinks he is now sure of it. It if should be stole, the owner, though he might live perhaps ten years after the theft, of which he knew nothing, would find no difference between his having or losing it; for both ways it was equally useless to him.
— Thomas More, Utopia
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to a place, to an occupation, and to conformity with the will of an employer, and debarred, by the accident of birth both from the enjoyments, and from the mental and moral advantages, which others inherit without exertion and independently of desert. That this is an evil equal to almost any of those against which mankind have hitherto struggled, the poor are not wrong in believing. Is it a necessary evil? They are told so by, those who do not feel it---by those who have gained the prizes in the lottery of life. But it was also said that slavery, that despotism, that all the privileges of oligarchy, were necessary.
— John Stuart Mill, On Socialism
Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.
— Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling
They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.
— Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy
Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way. The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor.
— Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world
—  but we haven’t found wealth on the road.
There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Saving money won't get us rich. You have to spend it to get it.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.
— Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy
He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.
— James Rozoff
Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Those who fight for food will die in hunger, those who fight for wealth will end up poor heated, only those who seek knowledge and freedome will succeed even at there past.
— Hamzat haruna Ribah
Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you've got less
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
— Will Durant, The Lessons of History
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Annie giggled again. She couldn’t seem to stop herself. And when she did, the most incredible thing happened. Alex’s grin vanished, and after gazing down at her for what seemed to her several endless seconds, he got tears in his eyes. “Thank you,” he said. Only that, just a simple “thank you.” But to Annie, those were the two most wonderful words she’d ever seen spoken, and they meant more to her than a thousand others might have. With them, he told her a wealth of things, namely that he had meant everything he’d said to her in the attic, that he not only wouldn’t punish her for making noise, but that he wanted her to.
— Catherine Anderson, Annie's Song
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
— Mark Twain
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
— Robert B. Reich
Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion).
— Al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbalee
Like every other good thing in thisworld, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however,it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Let us beduly thankful for that, my dear Denis--duly thankful.
— Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention.
— Habeeb Akande
Let's dispel a little myth. Working hard is NOT the key to success. It may be an ingredient, but it isn't the main one.
— Tim Fargo
Everything is mended by the soil.
— Andrew   Crofts, Secrets of the Italian Gardener
Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.
— Vikas Swarup, Q & A
It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger
—  it is our arrogance and egotism
In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities swarmed with machines and industry, as thick with sinvergüencería as Santo Domingo was with heat, a cuco shod in iron, exhaling fumes, with the glittering promise of coin deep in the cold lightless shaft of its eyes.
— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.
— William Saroyan
We all believe that, we can’t buy love even if we are rich enough; but I think no one buys his own property.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.
— Andrew   Crofts, Secrets of the Italian Gardener
There must be a sense of urgency before anything can ever happen.
— Andrew   Crofts, Secrets of the Italian Gardener
There is nothing more to chasing after wealth than the wastage of a person’s noble life for that which has no value. Instead he could have earned a high rank (in Paradise) and everlasting bliss, but he lost this due to his craving after provision – which had already been assured to him and allotted to him, and it was not possible for anything to come to him except what was decreed for him – then on top of this he does not benefit from that, but rather abandons it and leaves it for someone else.He departs from that and leaves it behind so that he will be the one held accountable for it, yet someone else benefits from it. So in reality he is only gathering it, yet someoneelse benefits from it. So in reality he is only gathering it for someone who will not praise him for that, whilst he himself goes on to One who will not excuse him for that – this itself would indeed be enough to show the blameworthiness of this craving.
— Ibn Rajab The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status
People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.
— Andrew   Crofts, Secrets of the Italian Gardener
The subconscious mind is actively maneuvering in the background to select the activities that will move you closest to the reality that is most consistent with your deeper self-concept. So to achieve wealth, power, fame, romance or peace, you must engage in the powerful task of shifting your subconscious.
— Kevin Michel, Subconscious Mind Power
Most people don't lay the foundations correctly because they are too impatient or too greedy or too stupid ...
— Andrew   Crofts, Secrets of the Italian Gardener
Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
From the subtle afflictions caused by love of status is seeking after and aspiring positions of authority – this is something whose reality is hidden and obscure. It is not understood except by those who have knowledge of Allah, those who love Him and who are at enmity with those ignorant ones from His creation who desire to compete with Him with regard to His Lordship and Divinity and right to worship, despite their despicability and the contemptible position they have before Allah and in the eyes of His chosen servants who have knowledge of Him. Know that love of status attained by having one’s orders and prohibitions obeyed and enacted, and by merely the attainment of a position above the people and to have importance overthem, and that it be seen that the people are in need of him and seek their needs from him – then the soul of this person is seeking to compete with Allah in His Lordship and His Divinity and right to worship. Some such people may even seek to put the people into such a condition of need that they are compelled to request their needs from them, and to display their poverty before them and their need of them. Then he is inflated with pride and self-importance because of that, whereas this befits none except Allah alone.
— Ibn Rajab The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status
We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.
— Anthon St. Maarten
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
— Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects, even within circumstances that seem to be limited. Love leads us to atone for our errors and clean up the mess when we've made mistakes. Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence. Love leads us to serve, to forgive, and to hope. Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.
— Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
Anastasia, you're going to have to learn to be rich, too, if you say yes.' He says softly. 'Wealth isn't something I've ever aspired to, Christian.' I frown. 'I know. I love that about you. But then you've never been hungry.' He says simply.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.
— Daniel Suarez, Freedom™
But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they owe nothing and who can do them no harm; they do so for no other reason except that they are rich, knowing full well that they are so mean and tightfisted that they will certainly never give them one red cent during their whole lives.
— Thomas More, Utopia
Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking
—  for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand droppings ofthe past, theirvoices thickwith greaseand ordure,sewer-greedto corrode the earwith the horrorsof the pastand the voidsof new stupidity.One could drownwaiting for the poorto makeone fine distinction.Yes, destroy ussay the richand you losethe rootsof God.
— Norman Mailer, Deaths For The Ladies
Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children are not dressed warmly enough for winter. Real poverty is when the housing we can afford is not adequate to the needs of our families. On the other hand, real poverty is - equally - when I have eaten so much that I am uncomfortable, and again, my thoughts center on food. Or when I have so many clothes that I have to spend a lot of mental energy making choices among them or finding ways to store them. Or when, regardless of my living conditions, I am discontent and brooding about how to have more. Real poverty is when material things are uppermost and pressing - whether because we have too few or too many of them. It is poverty, because the human mind and spirit are made for higher things, worthier pursuits.
— Maxine Hancock, Living on Less and Liking It More: How to Reduce Your Spending and Increase Your Living
When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.
— David Servant, Forever Rich
For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good.
— G.K. Chesterton
The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there.
— David P. Gontar
True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self and to our family.
— Joseph C. Kunz Jr.
Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland.
— David Servant, Forever Rich
Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils
— Ali R.A
Christ, back in Chicago, we don’t make bicycles any more. It’s allhuman relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out newways for everybody to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what;and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accusesus of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates thebicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.”“And you think things will be better in San Lorenzo?”“I know damn well they will be. The people down there are poorenough and scared enough and ignorant enough to have somecommon sense!
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I have tried hard to be a good person and to leave the world a better place. To feel that I have in any small way succeeded is to me a prize beyond measure, the most wonderful wealth that I could ask for, a form of prosperity that I would wish for the whole world to experience and enjoy.
— Roz Savage, Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific
Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.
— Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Effendi
On the second and the third night there was again a ball -- this time in mid-ocean, during a furious storm sweeping over the ocean, which roared like a funeral mass and rolled up mountainous seas fringed with mourning silvery foam. The Devil, who from the rocks of Gibraltar, the stony gateway of two worlds, watched the ship vanish into night and storm, could hardly distinguish from behind the snow the innumerable fiery eyes of the ship. The Devil was as huge as a cliff, but the ship was even bigger, a many-storied, many-stacked giant, created by the arrogance of the New Man with his ancient heart.
— Ivan Bunin, The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
An Attitude of Gratitude Delivers To You Altitude of Beatitudes.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
How much you give is not counted by amount, but by fraction
— Sophia Cajon
Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come.
— Joel T. McGrath
.....He lost his childhood but in return got worthy wealth, the wisdom ....!
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love." Napoleon Hill
— Napoleon Hill, Law of Success: The 21st-Century Edition
Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything in this world, and that rank and ability are inseparable from wealth: let them observe that Cincinnatus, the one man in whom Rome reposed all her hope of survival, was at that moment working a little three-acre farm (now known as Quinctian meadows) west of the Tiber, just opposite the spot where the shipyards are today. A mission from the city found him at work on his land - digging a ditch, maybe, or ploughing. Greetings were exchanged, and he was asked - with a prayer for God's blessing on himself and his country - to put on his toga and hear the Senate's instructions. This naturally surprised him, and, asking if all were well, he told his wife Racilia to run to their cottage and fetch his toga. The toga was brought, and wiping the grimy sweat from his hands and face he put it on; at once the envoys from the city saluted him, with congratulations, as Dictator, invited him to enter Rome, and informed him of the terrible danger of Minucius's army.
— Livy, The Early History of Rome:
Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.
— Stephen Richards
Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom.
— Christopher  Dutton
To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth — that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
— Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.
— Nicole  Williams, Crash
Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events. But so what? I, at least, am a lot more offended by the sight of exquisitely tailored plutocrats, who owe their continued wealth to government guarantees, whining that President Obama has said mean things about them than I am by the sight of ragtag young people denouncing consumerism.
— Paul Krugman
The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
— Socrates, Apology
No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel.
— John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
Do not earn wealth and lose people, for earning people is a way of earning wealth.
— محمد عبد الرحمن العريفي, Enjoy Your Life
Gold is cold, and men who possess much of it are infected with its chill.
— S.M. Carrière, The Dying God & Other Stories
Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day he was born because of some petty offense to his sensibilities. She is a very wise woman. To achieve serenity we have to view life not as it is measured by the world around us but as we ourselves measure it. We must accept that the scales are not at all equal.
— Emma Wildes, One Whisper Away
Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.
— Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.
— Moazzam Shaikh
In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me.
— T. William Watts
Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honour, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world.
— H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It's the way they have of thinking that everything nice in the world is a gift to the poor people from them or their ancestors. The first afternoon I was here, Mrs. Buntline made me come out on the back porch and look at the sunset. So I did, and I said I liked it very much, but she kept waiting for me to say something else. I couldn't think of what I was supposed to say, so I said what seemed like a dumb thing. "Thank you very much," I said. That is exactly what she was waiting for. "You're entirely welcome," she said. I have since thanked her for the ocean, the moon, the stars in the sky, and the United States Constitution.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?
— Andy Stanley, Fields Of Gold
God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.
— Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!
— Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.
— Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
Jews believe that people are creators, not consumers. The role of humans is to improve and perfect God's creations through work, creation, and innovation.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.
— George Saunders, Tenth of December
I talk. Jim runs. I tilt stones, Jim grabs the cold junk under the stones and -lickety-split! I climb hills. Jim yells off church steeples. I got a bank account. Jim’s got the hair on his head, the yell in his mouth, the shirt on his back and the tennis shoes on his feet. How come I think he’s richer?
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Religious Jews believe that all things come from God, as God owns everything. The Tanakh says, “The Lord makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up” (NLT, 1 Samuel 2:7). “The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it” (NIV, Proverbs 10:22).
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.
— Andy Stanley, Fields Of Gold
Although some popular religious texts such as the New Testament, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, or Tibetan Book of the Dead contain interesting insights and stories, it is the Jewish religious texts such as the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) that contain valuable information on acquiring wealth.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
Many people have got caught up in the belief known as the “Law of Attraction.” They believe that by their thoughts, affirmations, and other “attraction” exercises they will become wealthy. However, the Tanakh wisely says, “In all work there is profit, but mere talk produces only poverty.” (CJB, Proverbs 14:23). Only through work it is possible to produce results that create wealth and simply talking about wealth will not produce any results. The idea that wealth can come through thoughts or affirmations is a fantasy. “A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty” (CJB, Proverbs 28:19).
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Jews are known for their perseverance and this is what helps them achieve their goals. Perseverance means continuous persistence in a course of action, a purpose, in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
— Flannery O'Connor
Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
Money as the sole ambition has no value.
— Habeeb Akande
So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?
— Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing
Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
Wealth is a planned result that requires productive work and dedication. The Tanakh says, “The plans of the diligent lead only to abundance; but all who rush in arrive only at want” (CJB, Proverbs 21:5).
— H.W. Charles
I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.
— Neal Shusterman, Dread Locks
The Talmud says that “blessed is He who has created all these to serve me.” German politician Julius Streicher said, “It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
CODE:Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.Tanakh (JPS, Genesis 3:17)DECODED:Blessed is He that discerneth secrets.Talmud (Berakoth 58a)
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you.
— Clotaire Rapaille, The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy As They Do
The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
— Humphrey Bogart
Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
I am too rich already, for my eyes mint
— Mervyn Peake, Collected Poems
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
— Alain de Botton
Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough.
— Robert Skidelsky Edward Skidelsky, How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
..the family motto, after all, is 'To Have and To Hold'. We were always a warrior breed, but we don't fight solely for lands and material wealth. There's an understanding, drummed into all of us from our earliest years, that success-true success-means capturing and holding , something more. That something more is the future-to excel is very well, but one needs to excel and survive. To seize lands is well and good, but we want to hold them for all time. Which means creating and building a family-defending the family that is, and creating the next generation. Because it's the next generation that's our future. Without securing that future, material success is no real success at all.
— Stephanie Laurens, Scandal's Bride
How arrogant you areTo think your wretched Self so singular!The disappointments of this world will dieIn less time than the blinking of an eye,And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth;What empty foolishness it is to careFor what must one day be dispersed to air!
— فرید الدین عطار
If you always try to measure yourself withmoney... well, it's like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you'll have to show for it.
— Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho
Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.
— Larry Stone, The Story of the Bible: The Fascinating History of Its Writing, Translation and Effect on Civilization
[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection
—  in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection.
The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America
—  being a millionaire is not one of them.
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishesinto debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,and brings in perennial interest.
— Frederick Soddy
Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions--and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness.
— Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.
— E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime