Quotes About Wealth

The great men of antiquity were poor.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.