Quotes About Wealth

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Whatever you have, spend less.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

In the era of human rights, many (though by no means all) have become less poor, but the rich have been even more decisive victors. It follows that human rights must be kept in proper perspective, neither idolized nor smashed, to recognize the true scope of our moral crisis today and the melancholy truth of our failure to invent other ideals and movements to confront it. Human rights, focused on securing enough for everyone, are essential—but they are not enough.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau doubted it, complaining that the rise of commerce expanded hierarchies of wealth that both morally enervated the rich and fed disorder, even if they left the poor better off.

Cultural assertion follows material success; hard power generates soft power.

Rich, modern countries have common traits that make them different from poor, traditional countries, which also share common traits. Differences in wealth can lead to conflict between societies, but the evidence suggests that this mainly occurs when rich and powerful societies try to conquer and colonize poor and traditional societies.

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

But to think of the clatter they make with his coach, and his own fine clothes, and yet how meanly they live within doors, and nastily, and borrowing everything of neighbors.

Gives me some kind of content to remember how painful it is sometimes to keep money, as well as to get it.

This day I am, by the blessing of God, 34 years old, in very good health and mind's content, and in condition of estate much beyond whatever my friends could expect of a child of theirs, this day 34 years. The Lord's name be praised! and may I be ever thankful for it.

This morning came home my fine camlet cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

I do find myself to become more and more thoughtful about getting of money than ever heretofore.

Az igazat megvallva egy kicsit nagyon is hajhászom az örömöket, tudva, hogy most vagyok életemnek abban az idejében, mely erre leginkább való; és mert látom, hogy a legtöbb ember, aki a világban sokra viszi, a szerzés idején megfeledkezik az élvezetekr?l, arra az id?re halasztva azokat, amikor vagyona már elegend?, hanem akkor már kés?, semmi örömét nem lelheti bennük.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence, and laid a generous mind under obligation and dependence.

O, that we could put our treasure in Christ's hand, and give Him our gold to keep, and our crown.