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Quotes About Wealth

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~ August Strindberg
He likes people because he likes to share in conversations. I like people when they have large checks for me.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It's neat how money smells nothing like anything in the world except money, just like cardboard.
~ Augusten Burroughs
We had a wealth of something we didn't want, but the wealth itself was intoxicating and we invented games, just so we could experience the sensation of having too much of something.
~ Augusten Burroughs
What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?
~ Avram Davidson
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.
~ Ayn Rand
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.
~ Ayn Rand
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
~ Ayn Rand
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
~ Ayn Rand
The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
~ Ayn Rand
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
~ Ayn Rand
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don't ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.
~ Ayn Rand
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
~ Ayn Rand
Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.
~ Ayn Rand
I refuse to apologize for my ability—I refuse to apologize for my success—I refuse to apologize for my money.
~ Ayn Rand
He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.
~ Ayn Rand
He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion—prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded.
~ Ayn Rand
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
~ Ayn Rand
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth - the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him.
~ Ayn Rand
The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's wealth, the artist who envies a rival's higher talent - they're all wishing facts out of existence and destruction is the only means of their wish. If they pursue it, they will not achieve a market, a fortune, or an immortal fame - they will merely destroy production
~ Ayn Rand
I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money
~ Ayn Rand
Money is the barometer of society's virtue.
~ Ayn Rand
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires.
~ Ayn Rand
Man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.
~ Ayn Rand