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Quotes About Wealth

I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.
~ Dustin Diamond
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
~ Sean O'Casey
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
~ Charles Caldwell Ryrie
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
~ G. H. Hardy
Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
~ Jack Gleeson
A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don't need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am.
~ Lady Gaga
I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.
~ Robert Reich
I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.
~ Will Ferrell
it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.
~ Gabrielle Roy
To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.
~ Gary W. Keller
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
~ George A. Smith
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
~ George Santayana
The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
~ Gerry Spence
They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.
~ Guy de Rothschild
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
~ H. L. Mencken
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids
~ Harvey Mackay
I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.
~ Henny Youngman
There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have.
~ Jack Hyles
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
~ Cathy Guisewite
We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
~ Charles Kettering
When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.
~ Corey Haim
I was already set for life when I met her.
~ David Gest
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
~ Diana Ross
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld