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Quotes About Wealth

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you're happy, you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.
~ Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Sometimes when you have everything, you can't really tell what matters.
~ Christina Onassis
The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Having given all he had, He then is very rich indeed.
~ LaoTzu
Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.
~ Henry George
I'll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade - A breath can make them, as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
~ Horace
The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.
~ Richard Hovey
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
~ Samuel Johnson
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
~ Martin Luther
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
~ Matthew
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
~ Edward Moore
All wealth is the product of labor
~ John Locke
Riches certainly make themselves wings.
~ Proverbs
He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
~ Bible
No good man ever became suddenly rich.
~ Syrus
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
~ Bible
Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.
~ Thomas Fuller
The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."
~ Anonymous
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.
~ Dale Carnegie