Quotes About Wealth

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is 4000 miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited; and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

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 travelling 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.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does hot possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."

Bed is the poor man's opera.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Property is theft.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.