Quotes About Wealth

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.

A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.

The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.