Fertile Quote by Charles Babbage

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

— Ivan Panin

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

— Epictetus

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

— Sybille Bedford

Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

— Epicurus

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a…

— Aristotle

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

— Benjamin Franklin

I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.

— Azim Premji

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

— Immanuel Kant

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Care for the needy requires the expenditure of wealth: when all share alike, disbursing their possessions among themselves, they each receive a small portion…

— Basil the Great

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them…

— Jean Cocteau