Quotes About Wealth

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans—I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before…. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Education is a type of money which surmount when expend.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

High living and high thinking are poles apart.

Poor are poor because rich are rich.

Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.

It isn't the gold that changes man, it is the power which gold gives to man that changes the soul of man. This power, though, is only imaginary. If not recognized by other men, it does not exist.

The air bit into your lungs because it was filled with poisonous gas escaping from the refineries. That sting in the air which made breathing so hard and unpleasant and choked your throat constantly meant that people were making money- much money.

La suya era una de las familias más pobres del pueblo, una de las más apreciadas por su honestidad y su modestia y además porque siempre son más queridas las familias pobres que las ricas.

High thinking and high living are poles apart.

It is against nature for money to beget money.

So saith Solomon, Where much is, there are many to consume it; and what hath the owner, but the sight of it with his eyes? The personal fruition in any man, cannot reach to feel great riches: there is a custody of them; or a power of dole, and donative of them; or a fame of them; but no solid use to the owner. Do you not see what feigned prices, are set upon little stones and rarities? and what works of ostentation are undertaken, because there might seem to be some use of great riches?

Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit.