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Quotes About Wealth

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?
~ Sara Sheridan
I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me
~ Sara Teasdale
I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me; My thoughts of you are golden coins Stamped in the mint of memory; And I must spend them all in song, For thoughts, as well as gold, must be Left on the hither side of death To gain their immortality.
~ Sara Teasdale
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
~ Sarah Bernhardt
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
~ Sarah Bernhardt
Only way to be safe is to let me protect you. You can be part of my family. You can be with your parents again, and we'll all become rich together. How does that sound?" Monster sniffed. "It sounds like a join-the-Dark-Side speech.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History
~ Maude Barlow
If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.
~ Charlie Munger
It would be nice if this [finding really cheap stocks] happened all the time. Unfortunately, it doesn't.
~ Charlie Munger
It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.
~ Chet Atkins
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
~ Bill Gates
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.
~ Jerry Rubin
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
~ Honore de Balzac
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.
~ Brian Tracy
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.
~ Charlie Munger
You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.
~ Warren Buffett
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
~ Robert Breault
Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.
~ William Cowper