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Quotes About Wealth

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
~ Bode Miller
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
~ Robert Frost
We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.
~ Henry Van Dyke
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.
~ Augustus William Hare
Success and money can really be quite blinding.
~ Jim Harrison
If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.
~ Bill Gates
Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.
~ Oliver Kahn
Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
~ Francis Schaeffer
Define the limits of your vision: Having this, you will not be poorer Than a man who rules a dukedom.
~ Su Shi
Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).
~ Brian Tracy
Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.
~ Joan Bennett Kennedy
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
~ Oscar Wilde
You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
~ Julian Casablancas
We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.
~ Erich Fromm
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
~ Edward de Bono
A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.
~ Stephen Birmingham
Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.
~ John Avery
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.
~ Charles L. Allen
It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.
~ Robert A. Cook
Success is the most valuable commodity.
~ Dominick Dunne
That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
~ Adam Smith
I encourage you to make money and to become enlightened. The two are not necessarily different. Have fun with whatever you do because we are only here for a while.
~ Frederick Lenz
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
~ Charles Dudley Warner