Wealth Quotes

3042 Wealth quotes by 1723 unique authors

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal… — Joan Didion
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. — Jean Cocteau
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. — Benjamin Franklin
No one should be rich except those who understand it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. — William Feather
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job? — Laurence J. Peter
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it? — John D. Rockefeller
As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Controlled time is our true wealth. — R. Buckminster Fuller
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. — Antoine Rivarol
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich… — Sean O'Casey
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality. — Benjamin Franklin
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. — Martial
The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. — John Milton
Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more. — Unknown Author
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of… — John Ruskin
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. — Abraham Lincoln
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. — John F. Kennedy
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger. — Wilson Mizner
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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