Quotes About Wealth

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.

Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.