Wealth Quotes

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

Economy is a great revenue.[Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]

Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

Faults that are rich are fair.

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

Many people say, "When I get a million dollars, then I'll be happy because I'll have security," but that's not necessarily so. Most people who acquire a million dollars want another and then another. Or they could be like a good friend of mine who made and lost every dime of a million dollars. It didn't bother him a bit. He wasn't excited about it, but he explained to me, "Zig, I still know everything necessary to make another million dollars, and I've learned what to do not to lost it. I'll simply go back to work and earn it again.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.

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.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

Those who own much have much to fear.

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

It’s not getting the million that’s important, it’s what it makes of you to achieve becoming a MILLIONAIRE.

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?