Wealth Quotes

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...

You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your famil...

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic...

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled li...

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — ...

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the ind...

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men...

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a priv...

I think the world’s a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn’t to be the richest guy i...

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if y...

People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surpl...

Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that...

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion.

Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carrie...

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we sh...

Character must show itself in the man'sperformance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty ...

That is why I decline to recognize the meremultimillionaire, the man of mere wealth, as an asset of ...

We should not take part in acting a lie any more than in telling a lie. Weshould not say that men ar...

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, right...

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice whe...

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not...

Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to ...

They wonder much to hear that gold which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so mu...

But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich...

Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by wh...

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that mo...

Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was bas...

I'm old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a ...

Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this import...

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwea...

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is...

Seven thousand of them were indicted and arraigned, and then they entered the maw of the criminal ju...

The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---...

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems no...

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

Fortune sides with him who dares.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be ...

For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like anothe...

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of livel...

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys ...

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number...

And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man wi...

I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and ...

Yes, there's sense in that. But the suddenly rich are on a level with any of us nowadays. Money buys...

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mam...

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constan...

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-...

I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are femin...

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

"If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to opinions, you will never b...

"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man."

He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupi...

To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unn...

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not b...

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as ...

No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhan...

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for maki...

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot aff...

Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpre...

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through ...

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined t...

What I'm sure of," he began, "is that you can't be happy without money. That's all. I don't like sup...

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from wh...

Like every other good thing in thisworld, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, howe...

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawki...

Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man dev...

Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place.

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs...

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real hap...

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the...

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his life-time for the...

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious...

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on t...