Quotes about Wealth

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.