Quotes About Wealth

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

Money is what makes a man act funny.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, ?He who is content.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

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

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Knowledge—Zzzzzp! Money—Zzzzzp!—Power! That's the cycle democracy is built on!

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.