Quotes about Affluence

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility.

Our affluence does not make us selfish; it simply enables us to afford more sophisticated expressions of selfishness.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Wisdom in poverty is better than folly in affluence.

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Civilization, therefore, or that which is so-called, has operated two ways: to make one part of society more affluent, and the other more wretched,than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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.

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn't awash in cash — and I don't want to go back.