Antoine Rivarol Quotes

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.