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Quotes About Wealth

A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.
~ Francis M. Lyman
My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.
~ Georgia May Jagger
Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.
~ Gregor Collins
No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style.
~ Gustavus Franklin Swift
A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.
~ H. L. Mencken
Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.
~ Ludwig von Mises
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.
~ Mario Andretti
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
~ Mark Twain
Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.
~ Matthew Henry
King is not a happy man, but a happy man is a king!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
People would say to me, "Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney", and I'd say: "I wish I had his money!"
~ Paul McCartney
If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.
~ Peire Cardenal
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
~ Alexander Pope
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don't ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.
~ Ayn Rand
No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.
~ Lou Whitaker
It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.
~ Martin Amis
A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
~ Mercedes McCambridge
In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
~ Michel de Montaigne
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
~ Moliere
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
~ Plutarch
Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.
~ Ogden Nash
Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.
~ Rabindranath Tagore