Quotes About Wealth

You have to be nice until you earn your first million, and after that people will be nice to you.

You're young if you're healthy and rich if you have no debts.

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

A person who has a billion times the wealth of another still operates within human limitations and the monetary system, but one who has infinite resources operates on an altogether different level. A person who lives a thousand times longer than another person is still mortal, but one who is immortal is not greater only in degree, but also in kind.

Many professing Christians are still focused on seeking wealth rather than knowledge about God, because they do not really believe that the fear of God and the word of God are worth more than gold.

In order to get out of the dumps, there are many steps to walk up, and most of the ones I know of, not only for myself but others, are made of money.

one is always in respectable company among rather well-to-do bourgeois, one does not notice this so much perhaps, but if one has dined for years on la vache enragée, as I have, one cannot deny that great misery is a fact that weights the scale.

Theo, do not become materialistic like Tersteeg. The problem is, Theo, my brother, not to let yourself be bound, no matter by what, especially not by a golden chain.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

money is something but not everything

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

Praise a large domain, cultivate a small estate.

O accurst craving for gold!

Ah too fortunate farmers, if they knew their own good fortune!

The German banker, Moritz von Bethmann, believed that the main reason for the Rothschilds' success was 'the harmony between the brothers'.

to his great joy that he was the richest prince in Europe, with an inheritance in the vicinity of forty or fifty million thalers (between £8,000,000 and £10,000,000), an almost unheard of sum for the times. The Prince moved his court, his officials, his mistresses and bastards from Hanau to Cassel; and because he was short of space commissioned an Italian architect to present him with plans for a fine new palace.

1870, even though the Hohenzollem Emperor, William II, pressed the family to establish a branch of the bank in his capital, the Rothschilds refused. As things turned out, it saved the family from large financial losses, but it was not shrewdness

Ouvrard could rage, Hope could enveigh, Baring could protest; but the Rothschilds had arrived.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

At the same time, he must struggle hard to acquire these things — firstly, knowledge, and secondly, wealth. It is his duty, and if he does not do his duty, he is nobody. A householder who does not struggle to get wealth is immoral. If he is lazy and content to lead an idle life, he is immoral, because upon him depend hundreds. If he gets riches, hundreds of others will be thereby supported.

I dare say, in the vast majority of cases, it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise.

At the same time, he must struggle hard to acquire these things — firstly, knowledge, and secondly, wealth. It is his duty, and if he does not do his duty, he is nobody. A householder who does not struggle to get wealth is immoral. If he is