Quotes About Wealth

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

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There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.