Quotes About Wealth

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.

I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.

To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Money has a fixed value. People can have unlimited value.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.