Quotes About Wealth

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets Got a new condo moving to the beach Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib Got damn man she's beauty and the beast

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.