Quotes About Wealth

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.

Medicine: "Your money and your life!

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.

I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant a way as people think.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I'm not scared.

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.