Quotes About Wealth

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.

Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve.

To make a million, start with $900,000.

The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.

If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

The money will go but the trophies will always be there.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.