Success...Defined...WEALTH
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0010
“If you look up a dictionary of quotations you will find few reasons for a sensible man to desire to become wealthy.” — Robert S. Lynd
WEALTH, Wisdom, Sadness
0011 C
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” — Epicurus
WEALTH, Greed, Envy, Happiness
0012
“Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more.” — Charles Caleb Colton
WEALTH, Greed, Happiness
0013 P
“I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my
wishes.” — Edward Gibbon
WEALTH, Prudence
0014 P
“Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not
take money.” — Unknown
WEALTH, Happiness, Perception
0015 P
“It’s good to have money and the things money can buy. But it’s good too, to check up once
in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”
— George Horace Lorimer
WEALTH, Happiness, Love, Family & Friends, Prudence
0016
“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” — Henry David Thoreau
WEALTH, Happiness, Family & Friends
0017
“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.” — Samuel Johnson
WEALTH, Happiness
0018
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” — Benjamin Franklin
WEALTH, Happiness
0019
“That which you cannot give away, you do not possess. It possesses you.”
— Ivern (Imogene) Ball
WEALTH, Charity, Greed
0020
“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.” — Henry David Thoreau
WEALTH, Happiness, Adversity
0021
“Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.” — Gregory I
WEALTH, Sadness
0022
“There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.” — Antoine de Rivaroli
WEALTH, Fear, Sadness, Reward
0023 C
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
WEALTH, Sadness
0024
“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.”
— Benjamin Franklin
WEALTH, Greed, Happiness
0025 PA
“It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two
watches is never quite sure.” — Lee Segall
WEALTH, Greed, Happiness
0026 H
“Money isn’t everything... and I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve said that.” — ‘Kirk’ Kirkpatrick
WEALTH, Happiness
0027 A
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause
us to stumble and trip.” — Charles Caleb Colton
WEALTH, Sadness, Adversity
0028
“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
WEALTH, Greed, Government
0029
“There is always danger in circumstances of abundance. The inferior man pushes forward through excessive ambition, thereby losing touch with men of talent and virtue in positions below him.” — I Ching
WEALTH, Greed, Ego
0030
“They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.”
— Lord Halifax
WEALTH, Greed
0031 H
“Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s
wife’s sister’s husband.” — H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
WEALTH, Family & Friends
0032 H
“Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.”
— Hobart Brown
WEALTH, Happiness, Greed
0033
“Money is more troublesome to watch than forget.” — Michel de Montaigne
WEALTH, Greed
0034
“A man’s treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character - how he makes it and how he spends it.”
— James Moffatt
WEALTH, Charity, Greed, Character
0035
“The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.”
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
WEALTH, Charity, Wisdom
0036
“Some folks seem to get the idea that they’re worth a lot of money just because they have it.” — Seth Parker
WEALTH, Ego
0037
“In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.”
— Max Lerner
WEALTH, Wisdom, Fame
0038
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” — Henry David Thoreau
WEALTH, Perception, Envy
0039
“The rich never feel so good as when they are speaking of their possessions as responsibilities.”
— Robert S. Lynd
WEALTH, Doubt, Accountability
0040 H
“If you aren’t rich, you should always look useful.” — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
WEALTH, Business
0041
“The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.”
— Russian Proverb
WEALTH, Greed
0042 P
“They who have little are thought to have no right to anything.” — John Lancaster Spalding
WEALTH, Potential, Hate
0043 A
“The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are
able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.”
— Eugene O’Neill
WEALTH, Adversity, Family & Friends
0044
“To view poverty simply as an economic condition, to be measured by statistics, is simplistic, misleading and false; poverty is a state of mind, a matter of horizons.”
— Patrick Joseph Buchanan
WEALTH, Perception, Optimism, Potential, Sadness, Sciences
0045 A
“Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”
— Benjamin Franklin
WEALTH, Optimism, Self-Confidence, Motivation, Excellence
0046
“Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.” — Plutarch
WEALTH, Procrastination
0047 C
“Poverty is the mother of crime.” — Marcus Aurelius
WEALTH, Envy, Law
0048
“Riches exclude only one inconvenience, and that is poverty.” — Samuel Johnson
WEALTH, Happiness
0049 H
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” — Woody Allen
WEALTH, Happiness
0050 H
“A budget is the way to go broke methodically.” — Unknown
WEALTH, Planning, Business
0051 H
“A deficit is what you have when you haven’t got as much as you had when you had nothing.”
— Gerald F. Lieberman
WEALTH, Government
0052 H
“Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give
your coat to your creditors.” — Joey Adams
WEALTH, Accountability
0053 CA
“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.” — Benjamin Franklin
WEALTH, Effectiveness
0054
“Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.” — Edmund Burke
WEALTH, Sciences
WEALTH Cross-References
Excellence—68, 72 • Winning—83 •
Motivation—107, 110 • Courage—196 • Prudence—227 •
Happiness—247 • Procrastination—264, 270 • Pessimism—277, 285 •
Adversity—291 • Fear—340 • Attitude—404 •
Personal Management—428, 430-431, 452 • Effectiveness—468-469 •
Potential—488 • Knowledge—522-523, 568 • Perception—603 •
Chance—661 • Judgment—676 • Genius—704, 710 •
Love—772 • Charity—799, 802, 807-808, 811 • Hate—852 •
Greed—880-881, 883-887, 890, 892-895 • Envy—902-905 •
God—998 • Sin—1021 • Business—1050, 1060 •
Competition—1168-1170 • Reward—1199, 1201, 1203, 1205 •
Government—1258, 1268 • War & Peace—1332, 1338 •
Family & Friends—1374, 1379 • Experience—1464, 1466 •
Health & Fitness—1476, 1487
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