Quotes About Wealth

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

William Perkins said, "The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.