Quotes about Wealth

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

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

Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

Love in your heart is better than gold in your hands.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.

In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.