wealth quotes

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

I’m filthy rich!

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.