Quotes about wealth

"Wealth unused might as well not exist."

Aesop on wealth
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"A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich."

Astor, John Jacob on wealth   

"The only thing I like about rich people is their money."

Astor, Lady Nancy on wealth   

"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."

Bacon, Francis on wealth   

"But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]"

Bible on wealth   

"Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]"

Bible on wealth   

"Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase."

Bible on wealth   

"It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich."

Billings, Josh on wealth   

"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go."

Bogart, Humphrey on wealth
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"The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life."

Budgell, Eustace on wealth   

"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."

Burke, Edmund on wealth   

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"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

Burke, Edmund on wealth   

"For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell."

Butler, Samuel on wealth   

"The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor."

Carnegie, Andrew on wealth   

"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."

Carnegie, Andrew on wealth   

"The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."

Carnegie, Andrew on wealth   

"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness."

Cecil, Robert on wealth   

"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application."

Cervantes, Miguel De on wealth   

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony."

Channing, William Henry on wealth   

"If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on wealth   

"There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on wealth   

"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty."

Churchill, Winston on wealth
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"Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly."

Cocteau, Jean on wealth   

"If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be."

Collier, Robert on wealth
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"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."

Colton, Charles Caleb on wealth   

"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."

Colton, Charles Caleb on wealth   

"Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer."

Defoe, Daniel on wealth   

"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich."

Democritus on wealth   

"He that is rich is wise."

Depoe, Daniel on wealth   

"The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules."

Didion, Joan on wealth   

"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."

Dietrich, Marlene on wealth   

"The first wealth is health."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wealth
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"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wealth
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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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wealth   

"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin."

Erasmus, Desiderius on wealth   

"The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor."

Feather, William on wealth   

"Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield."

Franklin, Benjamin on wealth   

"He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him."

Franklin, Benjamin on wealth
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"The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality."

Franklin, Benjamin on wealth
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"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."

Franklin, Benjamin on wealth