Wealth Quotes

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth, you have given away"

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

"He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him."

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

"The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure."

"Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield."

"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay."

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

"Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only"

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

"Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul."

"I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds."

"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."

"Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth."

"The first wealth is health."

"Never seek illicit wealth."

"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"

"There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use."

"The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away ''unwept, unhonored, and unsung,'' no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: ''The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.'' Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor."