Quotes on Wealth

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

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

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more.

Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .

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

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Time is wealth, and unlike money when it is gone you cannot replace it.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these".

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

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?