Quotes about Wealth
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
- St. Jerome
When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
- Alistair Begg
A man should make all he can, and give all he can.
- Nelson Rockefeller
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.
- AW Tozer
I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.
- William Saroyan
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
- St. Basil
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
- Napoleon Hill
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
- Oscar Wilde
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
- St. Jerome