Quotes About Wealth

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

No man can Become Rich without enriching others.