Quotes About Wealth

For centuries, prosperity has been easy to define in material terms. At a personal level, by how much one earns; how much one has.

Governments don't get elected saying, 'We're going to lower GDP next year,' governments get elected on saying, 'We're going to increase prosperity and the happiness and the wealth of our nations.' But that kind of capitalism will only lead to the destruction of our planet.

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

I should be pleased to see all the nations on the earth prosperous and happy and rich, for it would furnish to me the best evidence of the prosperity of my native land.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

We will make a country that is more prosperous and that can provide decent paying jobs for all of our people.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

The Homburg makes a man look prosperous.

Government doesn't make people prosperous. Prosperity is found within the ideas of the American people. Always has been, and it always will.

Look around you and you see plenty of prosperous businessmen splurging money like there was no tomorrow but paying no taxes.

I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Money affects everything, from who I'm with to what label I'm on, so everything I do now is about protecting it. But I didn't understand how powerfully that would affect my home life.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

Why give a million dollars to someone if they have not proved that they can make a million dollars?

There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a proven wealth builder and savings compeller.

I've been able to make a lot of money and live a lifestyle that I never dreamed of. And I've been able to provide for my family.

I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate and I try to provide it.

Prosperity is full of friends.

Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.