Quotes About Wealth

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.