Quotes about Wealth
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The love of money is the root of all evil." The lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,Nor a friend to know me;All I ask, the heaven aboveAnd the road below me.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them
- Robin Sharma
We take life so seriously. But at the end, the billionaire gets buried next to the street sweeper.
- Robin Sharma
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings us today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle do
- Leland Ryken
Puritan leaders, at least, valued an educated mind over material riches. Cotton Mather admonished his congregation with the comment, "If your main concern be to get the riches of this world for your children, and leave a belly full of this world unto them, it looks very suspiciously as if you were yourselves the people of this world, whose portion is only in this life."30
- Leland Ryken
William Perkins said, "The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.
- Leland Ryken
Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.
- Stephen Colbert
Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.
- Thomas Paine
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- Bill Gates