Wealth Quotes

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

Astor, Lady Nancy

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Norman Thomas

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

Warren Buffet

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If Im not there, I go to work.

Vinnie Rege

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Henry David Thoreau

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Benjamin Jowett

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Sir Francis .

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Lane Kirkland

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Mother Teresa

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Burke, Edmund

Wealth, the most excellent of all the gods.

Aristophanes

Being rich is bad and inhumane. So condemn the rich.

Hugo Chavez

Much of Europes wealth comes from the mineral riches of the new world, which fed the coffers of the monarchies of Europe.

Hugo Chavez

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Bagehot, Walter

Wealth maketh many friends.

Bible, The

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labour shall increase.

Bible, The

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Michael Harrington

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

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