Quotes About Wealth

If you are penniless you will have a thousand dreams. Get even a single piece of money, however, and you will have only twenty options.

Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay. Proverb

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

La codicia te daña: la generosidad te ayuda. Por eso se ha dicho: 'La codicia es la madre de la incapacidad'.

Scraps The scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil

Sobras Las sobras de la comida del emir son mayores que los presentes de halwa (dulces) del mercader. Timur Fazil

Aunque el oro falso haga feliz a un hombre, en la casa de la moneda será identificado.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Poverty: The result of marriage.

La mina siempre es más grande que la joya.

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

De qué te sirve ganar el mundo, si al final pierdes tu alma?

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.

Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

You talk of being a believer, but you can't seem to trust anyone, not even God. You cling to your wealth as your security and carry the baggage of being unworthy, even though God loves you and has forgiven you. You should have listened a little closer to that sermon in church a couple of weeks back.

Money Can't Buy Happiness, but it can buy things that make you happy....

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

No different from others of my age am I for I feel the pressures of the age in which I live: that of attraction, wealth and popularity.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.

Madison and others reserved their harshest criticism for state religions obsessed with earthly wealth and power. Their argument was two-pronged: State religion was bad for the individual citizen, interfering with his most basic and personal of choices, and it was bad for religion, condemning the church to worldliness and corruption.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.