Quotes About Wealth

Religion is the opium of the poor

If only God would give me a clear sign like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.

Many crores of rupees are squandered in this country by way offering gratitude to God and bribing Him to gain greater and greater wealth.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul?" -Mark 8:36

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

People who don't respect money don't have any.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

The people I respect all died broke and despairing. They didn't leave a lot of hammered iron behind them like Donald Trump has done.

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.