Quotes About Wealth

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.

God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

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.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

I think that indicates why men tend to invest more wealth. If he loses some, there's more coming in. Whereas for women, it's like "Ugh, I gotta keep this."

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates