Quotes About Wealth

She'd always said that there must be something very bad about money, because those who needed it most never had it, and so many who had it would do such awful things to get more of it. The

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

I've often wish'd that I had clear,For life, six hundred pounds a year;A handsome house to lodge a friend,A river at my garden's end,A terrace walk, and half a roodOf land set out to plant a wood.

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

But thousands die, without or this or that,Die, and endow a college, or a cat.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace;If not, by any means get wealth and place.

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [ Thoughts on Various Subjects , 1727]

Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,   When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last;   Or when rich China vessels fall'n from high,   In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie! 160

If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.

Memory is a mans real possession....in nothing else is he rich....in nothing else is he poor.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

Are you kidding me? The woman leaves priceless Ming vases and Picassos lying about like they came off a sale rack at some discount store and she fills a hidden safe with musty old books?

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Warren's guests had learnt about poverty, not from being poor themselves, in places where you did not hear the screams and yelling of help.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.