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Quotes About Wealth

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.
~ Dave Ramsey
A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
~ Frank Herbert
Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.
~ Henry David Thoreau
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.
~ Jim Rohn
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?
~ John Dos Passos
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
~ John Stuart Mill
It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.
~ John Wilmot
A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
~ Joseph Addison
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
~ Noam Chomsky
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I am the rich man's guru.
~ Rajneesh
The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
~ Sarah McLachlan
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
~ Stanley Kubrick
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
~ Sydney J. Harris
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
~ Voltaire
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.
~ Walt Whitman
Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
~ Walter Raleigh
No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.
~ William Levitt