Ralph Waldo Emerson Money Quotes
- The page contains over 30 money quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson about money and wealth
- Each quote is accompanied by an option to share or embed an image of the quote
- The quotes cover a wide range of topics related to money including earning a living, wealth creation, poverty, debt, and the value of money
- Many of the quotes emphasize that true wealth comes from applying one’s mind and skills, not just saving or industry alone
- Several quotes discuss how wealth allows one to access and benefit from the work of many others
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“Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender“
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“The greatest man in history was the poorest” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses”
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“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles”
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“Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature?”
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“As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living? And with reason”
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“He is no whole man until he knows how to earn a blameless livelihood. Society is barbarous, until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs”
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“Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He fails to make his place good in the world, unless he not only pays his debt, but also adds something to the common wealth”
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“Nor can he do justice to his genius, without making some larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich”
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“Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe, up to the last secrets of art”
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“Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot”
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“One man has stronger arms, or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams, and growth of markets, where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep, wakes up rich“
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“The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing from where it abounds, to where it is costly”
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“He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men’s faculties. He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, of men in distant countries, and in past times”
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“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave”
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“The world is his, who has money to go over it”
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“Man was born to be rich, or, inevitably grows rich by the use of his faculties; by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production”
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“There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune, and so, in making money”
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“The value of a dollar is, to buy just things: a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius, and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university, is worth more than a dollar in a jail”
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“Sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery, or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and, with the rapid wealth, come rapid claims: which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated”
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“Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong”
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“Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”
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“Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread”
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“Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar”
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“Poverty consists in feeling poor“
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