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Quotes About Wealth

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God…. I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
~ John Davison Rockefeller
A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
~ John Davison Rockefeller
A few decades back one could get a pretty good idea of someone's overall political stance by finding out how much he hates rich people; the equivalent today is finding out how much he hates white people.
~ John Derbyshire
Hee that hath all can have no more
~ John Donne
America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into slums and sweated the wealth out of our people and when they want to they hire the executioner to throw the switch.
~ John Dos Passos
The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, small farmers were being squeezed out, workingmen were working twelve hours a day for a bare living; profits were for the rich, the law was for the rich, the cops were for the rich;
~ John Dos Passos
All heiresses are beautiful.
~ John Dryden
Rich the treasure,Sweet the pleasure—Sweet is pleasure after pain.
~ John Dryden
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
~ John Dryden
I'm at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock.
~ Irving Kahn
I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.
~ J. K. Rowling
My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.
~ Jake T. Austin
Life in Beverly Hills is a game, and I make the rules.
~ Lisa Vanderpump
Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.
~ Mason Cooley
The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
~ Philip Yancey
Money can't buy life.
~ Bob Marley
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.
~ Andy Rooney
I don't need anybody, I'm successful in life enough to buy myself a f'ing sandwich.
~ Carlos Mencia
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.
~ David Hume
You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.
~ Dominick Dunne
The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
~ Edgar Friedenberg
Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee