Quotes About Wealth

My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."