Quotes about Wealth

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

The path that leads through Latin and alebra is not the path to material success. But it may suggest much more: that understanding things is a waste of time; that if you want to succeed in the world and have a happy family and a nice home and a BMW you should not try to understand things but just add up the numbers or press the buttons or do whatever else it is that marketers are so richly rewarded for doing.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.