Quotes About Wealth

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

Money don't change you, it changes the people around you.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.

The passion for money is never fickle.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

I rob banks because that's where the money is.

Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.

You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.