Wealth Quotes

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Anon.

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

Plato

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Marlene Dietrich

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Joan Didion

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.

Joan Didion

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

John Leonard

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

Gore Vidal

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

J. Paul Getty

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Colonel Harland Sanders

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Aesop

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Mahatma Gandhi

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Walter Bagehot

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus

Nothing is more elegant than ready money!

Proverb

Riches come forth from one who owns little, while another of material wealth turns penniless.

Al-Kindi

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez