Quotes About Wealth

What a rich man gives and what he consumes, that is his real worth.

the love of money is the root of all evils." - John de Alençon, Pg, 64

He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.

Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.

[Of two suitors for his daughter's hand:] I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

It is the prerogative of the unthinkingly prosperous to sneer at the bourgeois virtues.

Pauperism is above all a psychological, not an economic, condition.

A taste for kitsch among the well-to-do is a sign of spiritual impoverishment; but among the poor, it represents a striving for beauty, an aspiration without the likelihood of fulfilment.

Easily able to capture the lion's share of the aid that is given to their countries on the pretext that they are so poor, African elites have realised that there is wealth to be made from poverty.

One man's poverty is another man's employment opportunity.

An American Tragedy.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Everything gives way to money, and money gives way to nothing, neither to man nor to God.

Malefactors of great wealth.

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.

No amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them.

The rights of property are in less jeopardy from the Socialists and the Anarchists than from the predatory man of wealth…

We have come to a political deification of Mammon.