Quotes on Wealth

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.