Quotes About Wealth

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

Man cannot live by profit alone.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.

In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.

The Bible says that it is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say that it is impossible!

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.