Quotes About Wealth

If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

The Richest Man in Babylon:

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

The wealth of a nation depends on its people, management, and government, more than on its natural resources.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity

Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man and I could not, and yet I am something smaller than a camel, and this is something larger than a needle's eye.

poverty proved greater than vanity...

If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich.

Let's be honest: it's not like I'm not making a good living that the whole family benefits from. No one talks about my foul mouth when we're all in Aspen for Christmas.

No one has ever become poor from giving.

We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.

Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I'll earn at least $24,000 in cash.

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO.

The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better.