Wealth - Quotes

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. - Miguel de Cervantes

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income. - Jean de la Bruyere

All wealth is the product of labour. - John Locke

Almost every wealthy man in this country will tell you that his greatest satisfaction and happiest days were when he was emerging from poverty into a competency; when he first felt the tonic from the swelling of his small savings towards the stream of fortune, and knew that want would no longer dog his steps. - Orison Swett Marden

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. - G. K. Chesterton

Any man can become rich who is base enough to keep a brothel, a gin palace, or a gambling house. - Charles William Day

As large trees are not the most productive, neither are wealthy men the most liberal. - William Scott Downey

Being wealthy when no one else is is like being the only one at the party with a drink. - Tim Allen

Envy wealth for its power of good, not ill. - Edward Counsel

Equal distribution of wealth does not mean we all should be millionaires – it only means no one should die of hunger. - Dodinsky

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. - Barack Obama

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. - Seneca

Friends mostly test other's prosperity by their own; all wealth is but comparison of wealth. - Edward Counsel

Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being. - Arnold Bennett

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. - Socrates

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more. - Horace

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. - Edmund Burke

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence. - Lyman Abbott

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain. - Jean de la Bruyere

Never respect men merely for their riches; but rather for their philanthropy: we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. - William Scott Downey

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. - Charles Caleb Colton

Rich isn't an amount of money, it's a mind-set about how you live. - Unknown

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use. - Benjamin Whichcote

Riches are not an end of life but an instrument of life. - Henry Ward Beecher

The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble. - Charles Reade

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. - Plato

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk. - Edgar Watson Howe

The most wanton torture is that of the rich trying to kill time. - Lewis F. Korns

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. - Antoine Rivarol

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make. - Unknown

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly. - Christian Nestell Bovee

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it. - Ivan Panin

There is no greater wealth in this world than the peace of mind. - Unknown

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty! - Ann Radcliffe

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars. - Austin O’Malley

Those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one. - Charles Caleb Colton

Titles, riches, and fine houses signify no more to the making of one man better than another, than the finer saddle to the making the better horse. - Wellins Calcott

True wealth is living with passion and purpose. - Unknown

True wealth is not measured by money. The ‘wealthiest’ people on earth are mentally happy, and not those who are merely acting happy sitting on their wealth. - Unknown

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse. - Og Mandino

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings. - Henry Ward Beecher

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. - Dean Koontz

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. - Charles Colton 

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Wealth is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. - Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. - Frank Herbert

Wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. -

Wealth is both an enemy and a friend. - Nepalese Proverb

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. - Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel – only a means to an end. - Henry Ford

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. - Plato

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. - Seneca

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries. - Sophocles

Wealth which breeds idleness ... is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worm's banquet. - Horace Mann

Who is rich? He that enjoys his portion. - Benjamin Franklin

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.  - Epictetus

Worldly prosperity is like writing on water. - Unknown