wealth loss Quotes

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

When Jesus warns us not to store up treasures on earth, it's not just because wealth might be lost; it's because wealth will always be lost. Either it leaves us while we live, or we leave it when we die. No exceptions....Realizing its value is temporary should radically affect our investment strategy.... According to Jesus, storing up earthly treasures isn't simply wrong. It's just plain stupid.

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

[Barack] Obama administration, the [George W.]Bush administration have done nothing. And as China has manipulated its currency, we've lost trillions of dollars of wealth and millions of good-paying jobs.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

Planet Earth thought it had £10. But it turns out we only had £2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth

I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.

Westlife earnt millions. We were on the 'Irish Times' Rich List. And then... I'm not!

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself.

I remember I had a psychologist that I worked with in Phoenix tell me one time that the loss of a job and the loss of one's wealth is more devastating to most than losing a loved one or getting divorced. And that really hit me.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

You can lose leverage, and it's the only way a smart guy can go broke.

We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.