Quotes about Wealth

Finally—and this is the seventh familiar theme of Venezuelan socialism—there is getting rich off politics. Once again, that does not occur in Scandinavia. There is not a single politician in Norway, Sweden or Denmark who has gone from zero to $10 million—or $200 million—while largely employed in the public sector.

You're only poor if you choose to be. Meaning: you can be rich in spirit, you can be rich in thought, you can be rich in talent and you can be rich in all those wonderful things.

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries