Quotes about Wealth

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'.

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control. This is the path of freedom and happiness. If you want not just peace and contentment, but power and wealth too, you may forfeit the former in seeking the latter, and will lose your freedom and happiness along the way.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

The Marvel characters are all very, very rich.

I never grew up with money, and I never wanted a lot of material things.

If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that would be 4 million jobs.

O.K., my family isn't, like, stupid-wealthy. But I'm coming from a place where if football doesn't work out, I don't have to work at McDonald's.

Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.