Wealth And Virtues Quotes

“They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the love he had forfeited and by that process performed great service to the world and, perhaps, had much more than balanced the evils of his rise. I was on a ship when he died. The news was posted on the bulletin board, and nearly everyone recieved the news with pleasure. Several said, "Thank God that son of a bitch is dead."

Then there was a man, smart as Satan, who, lacking some perception of human dignity and knowing all too well every aspect of human weakness and wickedness, used his special knowledge to warp men, to buy men, to bribe and threaten and seduce until he found himself in a position of great power. He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise...

There was a third man, who perhaps made many errors in performance but whose effective life was devoted to making men brave and dignified and good in a time when they were poor and frightened and when ugly forces were loose in the world to utilize their fears. This man was hated by few. When he died the people burst into tears in the streets and their minds wailed, "What can we do now?" How can we go on without him?"

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, mo matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror....we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.”
― Lujan Matus, Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with a Shaman

“Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their 'work' is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention.”
― Sergio Troncoso, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays

“He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“...wealth without pride is the way of the great sage.”
― Ueda Akinari, Tales of Moonlight and Rain

“[...] Cousin Jimmy gave me a whole dollar on the sly last week. I wish he had not given me so much. It worrys me. It is an awful responsibility. It will be so diffikult to spend it wisely also without Aunt Elizabeth finding out about it. I hope I shall never have a million dollars. I am sure it would crush me utterly.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

“When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.”
― Dr Paul Enenche

“SIR DANIEL was a large man, broad of shoulder...his eyes were rather small above the double pouches and the look they fixed on Dalgliesh gave nothing away. Looking at his bland, unrevealing face sparked off for Dalgliesh a childhood memory. A multi-millionaire, in an age when a million meant something, had been brought to dinner at the rectory by a local landowner who was one of his father's churchwardens. He too had been a big man, affable an easy guest. The fourteen-year-old Adam [Dalgliesh] had been disconcerted to discover during the dinner conversation that he was rather stupid. He had then learned that the ability to make a great deal of money in a particular way is a talent highly advantageous to it possessor and possibly beneficial to others, but implies no virtue, wisdom or intelligence beyond expertise in a lucrative field.”
― P.D James

“The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams

“Death is the destiny of every man.
Why do people fight over power and material wealth.
We brought nothing into the world, certainly, we will take nothing out of the world.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

“God is our great provider!
The Lord's blessings are our greatest wealth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I do not believe that Caucasians of the western world are inherently evil. What I do believe is that the powerful subliminal effect of institutionalized racism in American…encouraged and empowered Caucasians to do evil and unimaginable things to people of all colors.
~Commander Jeff - Genesis”
― James Morris Robinson, Accelerant...The Sixth Extinction

“[The rich] are like the pearl in the oyster: shiny indeed, and produced by the living body of the oyster, but at the same time somewhat extraneous to the organism.”
― Guido Alfani, As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

“...cultivation of the right mindset and the use of the right mental attitude are the ultimate goals that will deliver to us the life we have only dreamed of thus far...”
― Elle Sommer, Reboot Your Money Mindset: Surprising Strategies For Mastering Wealth

“A little attention, a little kindness, a little thoughtfulness are worth more than all the wealth in the world.”
― Avijeet Das

“The world belongs to the rich, she thought, and everybody else is here to serve them. Maybe Amir’s father was right. Maybe money is, above all else, the most important matter in life.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Money has a way of making life very easy.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Not all currencies are paper. Not all wealth is tangible.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish