Quotes About Wealth

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

The rich know not who is his friend.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

None is so rich as to throw away a friend.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

Action makes more fortunes than caution.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

Greed lessens what is gathered.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.

First health, then wealth, then pleasure, and do not owe anything to anybody.

All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.