Quotes About Wealth

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

You cannot serve God and Mammon.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

"What is your fortune, my pretty maid?" "My face is my fortune, sir," she said.

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

If of thy mortal goods thoU art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.