Quotes About Wealth

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

The richest of the rich is one who is not a prisoner to greed.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Then Jesus said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions."

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but to greed to want to take somebody else's money.

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

"Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf."

"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has."

"A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything."

"Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless."

"They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them in the day of the Lord's wrath…"

There are three things you must do in order to become wealthy. You must have the right mindset, discover your purpose in life, and find a business that expresses that purpose.

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".

Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

In an age of so many people getting hurt in real estate, it shows that you can still do well in real estate.

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.