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Wealth Proverbs & Sayings
Short, source-led sayings about wealth, money, work, risk, and the limits of success.
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ETHICS “Your worth is not measured by success, wealth, past failures, or mistakes. Your identity is found in your Creator.” Source recorded ETHICS “The best financial plan leaves room for both duty and life.” Source recorded MONEY “Protecting money is part of earning it.” Source recorded SAVING “A saving habit is stronger when it survives an ordinary month.” Source recorded MONEY “Good financial management protects goals from moods.” Source recorded MONEY “A clear record is the first map of a confused wallet.” Source recorded MONEY “Financial freedom begins when spending no longer follows every increase in income.” Source recorded DEBT “Paying interest is the price of using tomorrow's money today.” Source recorded DEBT “An emergency fund is a quiet shield against a loud surprise.” Source recorded MONEY “Income opens the gate; management decides how far the money travels.” Source recorded MONEY “The smallest expense can become large when it is repeated without thought.” Source recorded MONEY “A budget gives every coin a destination before it leaves your hand.” Source recorded MONEY “Saving turns today's restraint into tomorrow's choice.” Source recorded HISTORY “The shape of wealth changes, but the lesson of stewardship remains.” Source recorded SAVING “Wealth rewards preparation more often than surprise.” Source recorded RISK “Protecting wealth requires knowing what created it.” Source recorded LEGACY “Wealth becomes a legacy when it serves more than its owner.” Source recorded DEBT “Borrowed wealth can purchase comfort, but it cannot purchase certainty.” Source recorded SOCIETY “Wealth is measured in more than what the eye can count.” Source recorded ETHICS “Wealth can open a door, but character decides what happens inside.” Source recorded ETHICS “Wealth follows value, but it stays with responsibility.” Source recorded SAVING “The first wealth is the ability to wait.” Source recorded RISK “Wealth without wisdom can become a faster road to loss.” Source recorded SAVING “Wealth is a quiet harvest planted by small decisions.” Source recorded WEALTH “Wealth grows where discipline stays longer than desire.” Source recorded ETHICS “Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.” Source recorded WEALTH “Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold?” Source recorded WEALTH “Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.” Source recorded WEALTH “There is no Wealth but Life.” Source recorded DEBT “Creditors have better memories than debtors.” Source recorded DEBT “He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.” Source recorded MONEY “For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.” Source recorded WEALTH “He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.” Source recorded WEALTH “A faithful man shall abound with blessings: But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” Source recorded DEBT “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.” Source recorded WORK “The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.” Source recorded WORK “Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.” Source recorded ETHICS “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.” Source recorded DEBT “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.” Source recorded GIVING “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.” Source recorded RISK “And money is like muck, not good except it be spread.” Source recorded MONEY “Beware of little Expences; a small Leak will sink a great Ship.” Source recorded MONEY “If you would be wealthy, think of Saving as well as of Getting.” Source recorded
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WEALTH “Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold?” Source recorded GIVING “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.” Source recorded ETHICS “The best financial plan leaves room for both duty and life.” Source recorded SAVING “Wealth rewards preparation more often than surprise.” Source recorded SOCIETY “Wealth is measured in more than what the eye can count.” Source recorded ETHICS “Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.” Source recorded DEBT “He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.” Source recorded MONEY “Beware of little Expences; a small Leak will sink a great Ship.” Source recorded MONEY “If you would be wealthy, think of Saving as well as of Getting.” Source recorded SAVING “A saving habit is stronger when it survives an ordinary month.” Source recorded SAVING “Wealth is a quiet harvest planted by small decisions.” Source recorded WEALTH “Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.” Source recorded WEALTH “There is no Wealth but Life.” Source recorded WORK “Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.” Source recorded ETHICS “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.” Source recorded RISK “And money is like muck, not good except it be spread.” Source recorded
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