Quotes About Wealth

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

The most valuable things in life can't be bought with money.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.