Quotes About Wealth

One way to end up with $1 million is to start with $2 million and use technical analysis.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

The greatest man in history was the poorest

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Nature says thou shalt keep the air, skate, swim, walk, ride, run. When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the sole leather has passed into the fibre of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. He is the richest man who pays the largest debt to his shoemaker.

The world is his, who has money to go over it.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!

The Good thing about Money is that it can buy just anything. The bad thing about it is that it can buy 'YOU' too!

every being loves ther own self more than anything else, for this is only natural. We love our children and our wealth only because we think of them as parts of ourselves, as belonging to us. Thus men never love their children, the homes or their gold as much as they do their own bodies, their selves. For these are never entirely identified with the self, but only perceived as belonging to the self.

People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more.

Regardless, in this world, this world where everything was linked, where data ruled all, where cryptographic codes had replaced physical locks on the world's wealth, on its infrastructure, on its weapons… In this world a being able to process information more rapidly than humans was the ultimate threat.

Jobs sardonically said that the charity world was a good place for Bill Gates, since he didn't have anything really creative to do with his time.)

The founders of Brown University, Nicholas and Joseph Brown, got their wealth by manufacturing and selling slave ships and investing in the slave trade. –The Black Holocaust for Beginners, S. E. Anderson

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

Money was never an issue in our house, mostly because my parents never saw a need to spend much.