Quotes on Pursuit Of Wealth

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.