Quotes About Wealth

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

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

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.