Quotes About Wealth

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

The wealthiest man among us is the best

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.