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 He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. - Bible  I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession. I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. One cannot both feast and become rich. Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. The first wealth is health. The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source. - Juvenal There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites. Australia is so kind that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest. It is better to live rich than to die rich. We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. Sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. The wealth of a nation consists not in its mass of material things, but in its system. The natural resources of South America are not inferior to those of the United States, but the wealth of the two regions is vastly different. The land of India is far richer than that of Japan, but the comparative wealth of the two nations is reversed. I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose. I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers. I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it. Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do. In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work. True abundance is not about gathering more things, it's about touching the place in us that is connected to the divine source of abundance, so that we know what we need in the moment will be provided. It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. 'Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things. It is wealth to be content. - Lao-Tzu Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. If you're happy, you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account. Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. Sometimes when you have everything, you can't really tell what matters. The only question with wealth is what you do with it. The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much. Having given all he had, He then is very rich indeed. - Lao-Tzu If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be. Prosperity is just around the corner. Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it. I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily. Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his life-time for the good of the community. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. I'll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade - A breath can make them, as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied. Riches either serve or govern the possessor. - Horace The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold. Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. - Matthew I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. All wealth is the product of labor Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. Riches certainly make themselves wings. - Proverbs He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. - Proverbs He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. - Bible No good man ever became suddenly rich. - Syrus 
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