Quotes About Wealth

There is nothing which you have presently that's actually an entitlement to you. I mean, your riches, wealth, fame, qualifications, job, career, business, houses, cars, husband, wife, children and stuffs like that are all end-results of God's infinite grace and mercy. So come on, show gratitude to God for his infinite mercy and grace upon your life.

Vain glory or vanity is nothing else but excessive pride, regard, trust, hope, admiration or dependence in one's own or someone else's riches, wealth, social status, family background, qualification, beauty, handsomeness or stuffs like that. Oh! yes, that's just what vain glory or vanity is all about. So, beware of that. -Emeasoba George

You are what you often think, talk or dream about. Yes! so dare to think big, speak positively, dream big and then get busy i.e. act positively and relentlessly towards ensuring the realization of your dreams. For, you will surely end up living big like millionaires and billionaires.

You are what you think, speak or dream. Yes! so dare to think big, speak positively, dream big and then get busy i.e. act positively and relentlessly towards ensuring the realization of your dreams. For, you will surely end up living big like millionaires and billionaires.

Shyness, inexhaustible source of misfortunes in practical life, is the direct cause, indeed unique, each inner wealth.

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

The appetite for torment is for some what the lure of gain is for others.

Every tormented "Occidental" suggests a Dostoyevskian hero with a bank account.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them

As Nic said, second-hand clothes were like day drinking, government handouts and having a lawyer: classy if you're rich, proof you're trash if you're poor.

In reverencing wealth we reverence not a man, but an appendix to a man.

A single run of luck has made the fortune of many a charm and many idols.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

Few things in this world trouble people more than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and indeed it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence, and temperance is a certain cure.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

On my honor, I believe it is characteristic of virtue to have nothing to do with riches!" thought he.

Money without honor is a disease

The modern god,--the only god in whom faith is preserved,--money, is here, in all its power, manifested in a single countenance.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

We must laugh no more at the government, my friends, since it has found the means of raising fifteen hundred millions in taxes. Clergymen, bishops, monks, and nuns are not yet rich enough to allow of their drinking at home among themselves; but only let St. Michael, who drove the Devil out of heaven, appear, and we shall perhaps see the good old times come back again!

In order that a woman may be able to keep a cook, may be finely educated, may possess the sentiment of coquetry, may have the right to pass whole hours in her boudoir lying on a sofa, and may live a life of soul, she must have at least six thousand francs a year if she lives in the country, and twenty thousand if she lives at Paris.

The wife of a banker is always an honest woman, but the woman who sits at the cashier's desk cannot be one, unless her husband has a very large business and she does not live over his shop.

Singular creature, he had never cared to find out a single relative among four generations counted on the female side. The thought of his heirs was abhorrent to him; and the idea that his wealth could pass into other hands after his death simply inconceivable.

Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods.