wealth quotes

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

You make more money if you’re generous.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Of course, I do everything for money.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

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

I think the word rich is all relative.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Money has a language of its own.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

Money ain’t everything.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.