Quotes About Wealth

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

The morning has gold in its mouth.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.

Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right-it holds my golden time!

A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here."

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.