Acquisition Quote by Robert Bunsen

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

— Louis Auchincloss

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

— Mark Twain

“There is a deeper satisfaction if you earn from your own work than relying on corruptible ways of amassing riches.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but…

— Thucydides

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

— Elmore Leonard

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 desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and…

— P. T. Barnum

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

— George Gilder

Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard.…

— Joseph Murphy

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful…

— Aristotle

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the…

— Gene Simmons

“Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth”

— Sunday Adelaja