Wealth Quotes

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Yiddish Proverb

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

R. Venning

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

John Wicker

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

G. K. Chesterton

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

G. K. Chesterton

Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G. K. Chesterton

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G. K. Chesterton

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

John Berger

Plenty makes dainty!

Scottish Proverb

The bottom line is in heaven.

Edwin H. Land

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson

Show respect to all. If you accept that all is undifferentiated oneness, and that all things are merely different aspects of that one thing (but vibrating at different frequencies), then you must respect yourself and everything and everyone around you.

Stephen Richards

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

Leo Tolstoy

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

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

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln

Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.

Lewis H. Lapham

A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.

Lewis H. Lapham