Farmers Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.

— Bill Bonner

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more. What difference does it make…

— Seneca

He is poor who doesnt have enough, he is poorer who cannot get enough.

— Jean Guehenno

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

— Anonymous

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

— John Ruskin

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

— Newell Dwight Hillis

“It is as my father says. Men are meant to be ruled. The poor man prefers to associate, in mind if not in body,…

— Philipp Meyer

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

— Karl Marx

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought…

— Benjamin Franklin

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

— William Ralph Inge