Wealth Quotes

The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.

Ernest Hemingway

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Diogenes

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

Plato

Wealth maketh many friends. Proverbs 19:4

Bible

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Matthew 6:20

Bible

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Humphrey Bogart

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

Christian Lacroix

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.

Charles Caleb Colton

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Theodore Roosevelt

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

Juvenal

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Proverb

Riches have wings.

Proverb

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Ralph Waldo Emerson