Quotes About Wealth

The Clintons engage routinely in corrupt practices, mixing their political power with their nonprofit work to make themselves rich, while not standing up for the little guy.

From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.

What stands out about me the most? Probably my chains. I don't know.

Money is rarely just money. Sometimes it stands in for love or self-esteem or freedom or a sense of control over your destiny (especially if you lacked these things in childhood).

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.