Quotes About Wealth

The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.

Women and wine, game and deceit, Make the wealth small and the want great.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain, but ever, while you live, expense is constant and certain.

Success has ruined many a man.

Rather go to bed supperless, than in debt.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.

If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich because her outgoes are greater than her incomes. Women and wine, game and deceit make the wealth small and the wants great.

Pride breakfasted with Plenty Dined with poverty Supped with Infamy.

As pride increases, fortune declines

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox.

While lazienes travel so slowly that poverty overtakes him. Drive thy buisness let not drive thee and early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, Poor Richard says.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion

There are three faithful friends – An old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Buy what thou has no need of and ere long thou shall sell thy necessaries.

People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

On the other hand, investing is a unique kind of casino—one where you cannot lose in the end, so long as you play only by the rules that put the odds squarely in your favor.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.