Quotes About Wealth

It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.

[The] stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get (Ben Graham).

Most Gamblers start with a little, and strive to turn it into a lot : Invariably they end up turning a lot into a little

The love of gain never made a Painter; but it has marred many.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.

He could not help, too, rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chuckling with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor. Then, he thought, how soon he'd turn his back upon the old school-house; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade!

The orders of society, in all well-constituted governments, are mutually bound together, and important to each other; there can be no such thing in a free government as a vacuum; and whenever one is likely to take place, by the drawing off of the rich and intelligent from the poor, the bad passions of society will rush in to fill up the space, and rend the whole asunder. Though

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

thrift shops make you a king for five bucks.

My father plowed under our fields to make the landing space for his helicopter. Jenna's father thinks my father is lazy since he only flies three times a week and is back by dinnertime. My father thinks Jenna's father should mind his own business.

a young man whose birth, wealth, and consequent leisure made many habits venial which under other circumstances would have been inexcusable.

Money does not change the pig, but it improves the pigsty."

The probability of becoming rich is much greater than of becoming poor.

You don't get rich by saving your thinking."

For money to be multiplied, knowledge has to be shared.

Rich is the one who doesn't need money to be happy.

Some people own the beach and others don't know the sea."

I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the 'village' is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

As the poets have mournfully sung, Death takes the innocent young, The rolling-in-money, The screamingly-funny, And those who are very well hung.

Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom. -- Whitney Otto

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.