Quotes About Wealth

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.

So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, / Went home and put a bullet through his head.

Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine though his nose.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market.

Things were certainly coming my way so that there wasn't anything to do but to make money. It made me remember a saying of the late H. H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil Company, to the effect that there were times when a man could no more help making money than he could help getting wet if he went out in a rainstorm without an umbrella.

I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.

Everybody knew that the way to do that was to take profits and buy back your stocks on reactions. And that is precisely what I did, or rather what I tried to do; for I often took profits and waited for a reaction that never came. And I saw my stock go kiting up ten points more and I sitting there with my four-point profit safe in my conservative pocket. They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market.

The fallacy that a stock that has once sold at 150 must be cheap at 130 and a bargain at 120.

You know, it's a bull market!

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

Addison G. Jerome was the acknowledged king of the Public Board in the spring of 1863. His market tips, they tell me, were considered as good as cash in bank. From all accounts he was a great trader and made millions.

Vision without money means heartaches; with money, it means achievement; and that means power; and that means money; and that means achievement; and so on, over and over and over.

They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

Greed is the termite of life; lying is a cancer of character

Money is not the success of life; it is only the power of buying the objects.

One invents; whereas, another earns and benefits from that, not the inventor.

Saving money Today secures, eases, and beautifies Tomorrow.

The simpleton and ignoramus may succeed, to enroll and study at Oxford University and such others, executing the wealth or status. However, such learners cannot qualify the vision since it waves a God gifted quality and ability, not the certificate of the university.

Because rich people need poor friends (but not too poor!) to maintain their connection to the struggle that spawned them even if they never struggled. Poor people tend to know what's going on plus they are often good-looking, at least when they are young and even later they are the cool interesting people the rich person once slept with, so the poor person always feathers the nests of the rich.

Money. Both cure and cause of so many evils, isn't it?