Quotes about Wealth
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
- Philip James Bailey
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
- Publilius Syrus
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
- Publilius Syrus
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The Bible says that it is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say that it is impossible!
- Jim Rohn
In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!
- John Lennon
Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.
- John Milton