Quotes About Wealth

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

A man shall never be enriched by envy.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.