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Quotes About Wealth

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald".
~ Rita Rudner
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways
~ Heraclitus
Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
~ Janet Morris
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
~ Jonathan Swift
University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.
~ Kin Hubbard
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
~ Solon
In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.
~ Steven Pinker
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
~ Thomas Aquinas
If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.
~ Tony Robbins
I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
~ Warren Farrell
A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
~ Charles Dickens
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
~ Charles Spurgeon
A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
~ Charles Spurgeon
He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.
~ Daniel Defoe
The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.
~ E. W. Howe
No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
~ E. W. Howe
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
~ Elbert Hubbard
If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.
~ Elizabeth I
If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
~ George Horace Lorimer