In the pursuit of wealth, there are lessons, guidelines, sayings, and proverbs that are used by Africans. These proverbs are used basically to motivate, teach, and advise on the subject matter called wealth.
Before the quotes in detail, many African societies historically associate wealth with men because of the view that men are the sole providers of the home, while women are assigned to household activities and childbearing. The wealth of a man was estimated by achievements like being a good hunter, number of wives, and children, farmlands, titles, livestock, and virtues.
Over the years, there have been a lot of changes in African societies where wealth is gained on a person’s labor irrespective of gender, which can be seen through an individual’s education, house, job, and the number of properties owned. Although some cultures still believe in the sexist notion of how women gain their wealth. In any case, here are the top 50 African quotes about wealth.
Here are Some of The Amazing Wealth Quotes in Africa
1. He who loves money must labor.
2. Money is sharper than the sword.
3. The wealth which enslaves the owner isn’t wealth.
4. Make some money but don’t make money make you.
5. Knowledge is better than riches.
6. When a poor man gets a little money, his thoughts go off in different directions.
7. Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands from what you can.
8. You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
9. He who receives a gift does not measure.
10. It is better to inherit the gratitude of your father than his building.
11. The fire in a community gets the community’s food done.
12. Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.
13. Greed loses what it has gained.
14. A patient man is a wealthy man.
15. A good name is better than wealth.
16. There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat.
17. Use what you have to put together in earlier days.
18. You become wise when you begin to run out of money.
19. Wealth diminishes with usage; learning increases with use.
20. Lack of money is lack of friends; if you have money at your disposal, every dog and goat will claim to be related to you.
21. What you give you get, ten times over.
22. He who runs after good fortune runs away from peace.
23. A man’s wealth may be superior to him.
24. Those who accomplish great things pay attention to little ones.
25. Only a medicine man gets rich by sleeping.
26. A real family eats the same cornmeal.
27. Rich people sometimes eat bad food.
28. Wealth is like hair in the nose; It hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.
29. Much wealth brings many enemies.
30. Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat; it is just that no one ever gives them meat.
31. If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
32. Don’t set sail using someone else’s car.
33. A bird that flies from the ground to the anthill does not know that it is still on the ground.
34. There are no shortcuts to the top of the palm tree.
35. A very ambitious person cannot sleep peacefully.
36. It is better to be poor when one is young, rather than to become poor in old age.
37. If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich.
38. The rich are always complaining.
39. It’s no shame to work for money.
40. With wealth one wins a woman.
41. You should not hoard your money and die of hunger.
42. Money is not the medicine against death.
43. Having a good discussion is like having riches.
44. You must attend to your business with the vendor in the market, and not the noise of the market.
45. We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth.
46. One who has people is richer than one who has money.
47. Your brother’s pocket cannot keep your wealth.
48. Money is like the waters of a sailing river it flows away.
49. Even if you’re rich, you cannot bury yourself.
50. If you want to improve your memory, lend someone money.
