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Quotes About Wealth

I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
~ Margaret Atwood
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
~ Mark Twain
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
God ought to be given the choice portion of our wealth and not its dregs.
~ Max Anders
Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.
~ Max Anders
It is unlikely that God's plan for the universe includes making you rich.
~ Max Gunther
Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.
~ Mother Teresa
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.
~ Roger Rosenblatt
Murphy's golden rule: Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.
~ Dave Barry
One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.
~ David Brooks
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
~ Edmund Spenser
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.
~ Euripides
I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.
~ George Mason
Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.
~ Hillary Clinton
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
~ Horace
It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
~ John Dryden
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.
~ St. Jerome
Greed is your god, Kaz."He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.
~ Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased's chances of going to hell.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
~ Charles Bukowski
I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
~ Ivan Boesky
Wisdom is better than silver and gold
~ Lauryn Hill
I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
~ Mark Cuban