Wealth Quotes

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock

Fortune befriends the bold.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich.
Charles Barkley

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Titus

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Jack London

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Pericles

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
A. J. P. Taylor

Money is just a way of keeping score.
H. L. Hunt

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Dan Millman

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Charles Spurgeon

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
Imelda Marcos

Money is a kind of poetry.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
Adriana Lima

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Affluence means influence.
Jack London

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
Edith Piaf

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.
Elliott Smith

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
James J. Hill

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.
LL Cool J

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
George Soros

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
Pete Rose

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
Anne Bradstreet

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Ann Landers

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
Bill Vaughan

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Joan Rivers