Quotes About Wealth

The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.

I explained to him I had simple tastes and didn't want anything ostentatious, no matter what it costs.

Unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.

The wealth of a nation consists not in its mass of material things, but in its system. The natural resources of South America are not inferior to those of the United States, but the wealth of the two regions is vastly different. The land of India is far richer than that of Japan, but the comparative wealth of the two nations is reversed.

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

It is wealth to be content.