“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”

—  Muhammad Ali

Last update June 13, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly ri…" by Muhammad Ali?
Muhammad Ali photo
Muhammad Ali100
African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942–2016

Related quotes

Bob Marley photo

“Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Interview for the Australian TV show 60 Minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LnxGoglJck

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Rich Boy

"The Rich Boy" (1926), paragraph 3.
Often quoted as “The rich are different.”
Quoted

George Orwell photo

“There are two ways to live, he decided. You can be rich, or you can deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.”

George Orwell book Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch.3

Frank Sinatra photo

“If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it… it possesses you.”

Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) American singer and film actor

Tom Dreesen on the Late Show with David Letterman March 30th 2009 said that Frank Sinatra had said this after giving his $2000 cuff links to a fan.

Fernando de Rojas photo

“The use of riches is better than their possession.”

Fernando de Rojas La Celestina

Act II.
La Celestina (1499)

Chetan Bhagat photo

“God gives talent so that the ordinary person can become extraordinary. Talent is the only way the poor can become rich. Otherwise, in this world the rich would remain rich and the poor would remain poor. This unfair talent actually creates a balance, helps to make the world fair.”

Chetan Bhagat book The 3 Mistakes of My Life

Source: The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), P. 61

Adam Smith photo

“With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part II, p. 202 (See also Thorstein Veblen).

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo

“: You can desire something only if you wish to possess it in the end. Therefore, love is a possession!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Spencer W. Kimball photo

“Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Georges Rouault photo

“The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.”

Georges Rouault (1871–1958) French painter

Quotes, 1940-1950, Stella Vespertina. (1947)

Related topics