Better Quote by Michael Mandelbaum

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

— Samuel Smiles

Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.

— T. Harv Eker

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste…

— Jim Gibbons

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the…

— Roger L'Estrange

One of the worst features of all the plans for sharing wealth and equalizing or guaranteeing incomes is that they lose sight of the…

— Henry Hazlitt

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

— Alissa Quart

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

— Rose Kennedy

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

— Fanny Burney

The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.

— Leland Stanford

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in…

— Seneca the Younger

Excessive pay and rewards for failure are bad for shareholders, the economy and society.

— Chuka Umunna