Quotes About Wealth

It wishes to see only "useful things" produced, but it forgets that production of too many useful things produces too large a useless population.

Where there is sunshine the doctor starves.

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

[T]his country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

...without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

The Art of getting Riches consists very much in Thrift. All Men are not equally qualified for getting Money, but it is in the Power of every one alike to practise this Virtue.

There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation. It's called your checkbook.

But if Virtue was to be rewarded with Wealth it would not be Virtue. If Virtue was to be rewarded with Fame, it would not be Virtue of the sublimest Kind. Who would not rather be Fabricius than Caesar? Who would not rather be Aristides, than even William the 3rd? Who?

Wine and wealth change wise men's manners.

The big bee flies high, the little bee makes the honey; the black folks makes the cotton, and the white folks get the money.

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.

Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.

Keep the air. Nature says, 'Thou shalt walk, skate, swim, ride, run.' When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the sole leather has passed into the fibre of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes & hats & clothes you have worn out. He is the richest man who pays the largest debt to his shoemaker.

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

Morning walks — rich man walks to digest food a poor to earn.

Get your money when the patient is in pain.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

More fortunes in money and in the material things of life have been lost by those who hesitated out of fear than by those who ventured too quickly and without caution.