Quotes about Wealth

The world writes books with titles like Think and Grow Rich, but if Jesus were writing for today's market, he'd title his book Love and Give Everything Away.

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.

You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.

I see now that in my search for love and acceptance, I slowly began to enslave myself to various identities, which I mistook for my real self in many arenas—sports, church, relationships, career, wealth. These identities became like gods of a lesser kind, all of which I hoped would save me from insignificance in this life.

Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

Private jets cost a lot of money.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.

Upon this, Bernard went and sold all that he had. Now he was very rich, and with great joy he distributed his wealth to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals, and to pilgrims, in all which St Francis assisted him with prudence and fidelity.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.