Quotes About Wealth

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?