Quotes About Wealth

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

I don't need to work.

Your money should be at work at all times.

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.