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America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth.

As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery.

E.L. Doctrow

To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The blessings and grace of God is my greatest wealth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

Bryant McGill

Wealth mostly ignored the real reality.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on to the United Arab Emirates to be enjoyed by wealthy Westerners and Arabs in the preposterous hotels that have set new standards in unnecessary opulence.

Misha Glenny

Your composite health is directly proportional to your composite wealth.

Anthony Pan

You probably have the ability to get what you want. And you likely have everything you need to be completely satisfied. But do you also have the ability to want what you've got? That just may be one of the most important questions you will ever answer.

Steve Goodier

I once asked him why he smoked the world's most expensive cigarette, and he told me it was because he was a man of wealth and taste, at least according to Mick Jagger.

K.H. Koehler

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best that we can be. Adams acknowledged that the United States didn’t fully live up to that ideal, but he argued that America came closer than anywhere else.

Nicholas D. Kristof

People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought—to be rude, to be inconsiderate, to be greeted rather than to greet—and because so many others like him exercised those rights, his choices were interpreted as humility.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

William Godwin

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

Jennifer Crusie

Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.

William Shakespeare

It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of the highborn. Blood is not water, it is said, but gold with them is dearer far than the ties of nature; to keep and augment their possessions being the aim and end of their lives, the existence, and, more especially, the happiness of their children, appears to them a consideration at once trivial and impertinent, when it would compete with family views and family greatness. To this common and and iniquitous feeling these luckless beings were sacrificed; they had endured the worst, and could be injured no more; but their orphan child was a living victim, less thought of than the progeny of the meanest animal which might serve to augment their possessions.Mrs. Baker felt some complacency on reading this letter; with the common English respect for wealth and rank, she was glad to find that her humble roof had sheltered a man who was the son — she did not exactly know of whom, but of somebody, who had younger sons and elder sons, and possessed, through wealth, the power of behaving frightfully ill to a vast number of persons.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between the two that she came to see their qualities as interchangeable, expecting material comfort from virtue and moral edification from wealth.

Marcel Proust

You can have it all,Luxury and wealth,A lot of friends and a good health,And own everything on earth.However, if you have greed,Jealousy, bitter and want not to see anyone get ahead in life.A dumping site is better than you because not everything found on a dumping site has no value.Plastics can be recycled,And some goods are not too bad to be used again.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.

Michael Bassey Johnson

What’s interesting is that most free-marketers don’t seem to want a free market at all, but a status quo market. The market in the United States is anything but free. If it were, big business would have to survive without corporate welfare to the tune of about $1 trillion (that’s trillion) in government subsidies, the majority of which, about $650 billion, go to the fossil fuel industry! They are living off of the public dole on subsidies totaling billions of dollar—that we hand out either directly, or through tax breaks for their big corporations—with the false assumption that they are creating jobs. They are not. They are creating yachts, Leer Jets, and McMansions with swimming pools.

Steve Bivans

Humility is hard when someone has things like wealth, knowledge, & recognition that may tempt him/her behave and act pridefully. Otherwise, worrying about pride without these factors that predispose you, it is just an illusion.

Assegid Habtewold

I decided I would teach Mrs. P. a lesson by cooking my own meal.

Paul Murray

You'll be enlightened about how you can alter what you think, feel and believe about money in order to "Get Rich Savvy Chick.

Lorene Collier Purcy

The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often carry with them the seeds of sorrow.

Thomas à Kempis

We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.

Raheel Farooq

We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy it, because they are rich. I have a feeling that that is not just. I do not grudge them their riches and all it can buy for them.

Neil M. Gunn

There was nothing wrong with having an expensive home, nothing wrong at all. There’s a pride in building something up, working hard to achieve something. But it shouldn’t have been his manhood that increased with each new success, it should have been his heart. His success was like the witch in ‘Hansel and Gretel’ fairy tale: it fed him for all the wrong reasons, fattening him in all the wrong places. Dad deserved his success, he just needed a masterclass in humility. I could have done with one too. How special I thought I was in the silver Aston Martin in which he drove me to school some mornings. How special am I now, now that somebody bought it from a depot of reprocessed cars, for a fraction of the price. How special indeed

Cecelia Ahern

that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth.

Marcel Proust

You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.

J.S.B. Morse

Sharing knowledge is sharing wealth

Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

Health is a priceless wealth. Invest while you can.

Bryant McGill

There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough for everyone.

Raphael Zernoff

Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.

Bryant McGill

We always been rich, Lydia. We just ain't had much money.

Marilyn Sue Shank

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

James Lee Burke

The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the violence committed for wealth is socially invisible or committed at enough of a distance that its beneficiaries don't have to be aware of it. This type of violence has defined every imperialist war in the history of the US that has been fought to get access to "natural resources" for corporations to turn into the cheap consumer goods that form the basis of the American way of life.

Lierre Keith

The more we have, the more we realize can be taken from us, and that’s when our lives border on insanity. We live in fear of losing what we think we possess. Once we let go and let God, then we gain a peace that surpasses understanding.

Toni Sorenson

I am, I know I am, the use of God’s limitless opulence and supply.

Malti Bhojwani

Heal the past and you'll heal the present." Kharis Macey

Kharis Macey

Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.

Leo Tolstoy

There are brains so smart in finance and unconsciously reject wealth.

Toba Beta

She bent and placed a single daisy upon the grave. A simple white daisy. The plainest of flowers, perhaps the purest, Elspeth thought. It had cost next to nothing at all, and perhaps that was the point. She wasn’t being cheap. She was being symbolic. In her mind, Andrea deserved only the unstained purity of the simplest of daisies, a daisy that was unsoiled by a wealth that couldn’t find the money to have claimed her soul.

J.R. Tompkins

Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see you through a start of your journey to success.

Israelmore Ayivor

Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far lands.

George S. Clason

Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit on the wall or travel to far lands.

George S. Clason

Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.

Debasish Mridha

My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.

Debasish Mridha

The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold.

Basava

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

James Fenimore Cooper

The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision.

Onyi Anyado

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

It’s hard being pissed with a nice car and a good job. Fed up on filet medallions and swimming in chilled martinis. We know what we think and our life here is our reward for thinking it.

Eric Sennevoight

When God gives you wealth, it is not a blessing; it is a test. He wants to test your faith in Him plus your desire and willingness to share. Be careful with the love of money.

Felix Wantang

As it was, she always did whatever occurred to her, which was, admittedly, not difficult for someone in her position, coming from a background where rick of failure was minimal; in fact, you had to work hard to fail in her world.

Hanif Kureishi

I saw myself as reviving a certain mode of life, a mode that had been almost lost: the contemplative life of the country gentleman, in harmony with his status and history. In Renaissance times they had called it sprezzatura. The idea was to do whatever one did with grace, to imbue one’s every action with beauty, while at the same time making it look quite effortless. Thus, if one were to work at, say, law, one should raise it to the level of an art; if one were to laze, then one must laze beautifully. This, they said, was the true meaning of being an aristocrat.

Paul Murray

Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there’s one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it’s the availability of quality staff . . .” The words died away on my lips: once again I found myself trailing off in the stare of those unblinking eyes. This fellow was like some kind of after-dinner black hole. My anxiety began to mount again.

Paul Murray

Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college degree.

David Brooks

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

Zsa Zsa Gabor

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.

Wendell Berry

Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.

Girdhar Joshi

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