Quotes About Wealth

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

Rising inequality isn't about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power.

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.