Quotes about Wealth
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
— George Bernard Shaw
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
— Mae West
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
— Mark Twain
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant
— Mark Twain
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.
— Martin Luther
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 whose pleasures 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