Wealth Quotes

Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

~ Amit Kalantri

Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful, difficult. It is easier to store than oil, more esoteric than diamonds, more durable than political influence.

~ Nick Paumgarten

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

With some money in your pocket you walk confidently, you talk confidently and you work confidently.

~ Amit Kalantri

You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy.

~ Amit Kalantri

Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

~ Alan Sheinwald

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you.

~ Sherman Alexie

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

~ Aesop

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

For the prosperous, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

~ T. Harv Eker

They wonder much to hear that gold which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has value, should yet be thought of less value than this metal. That a man of lead, who has no more sense than a log of wood, and is as bad as he is foolish, should have many wise and good men to serve him, only because he has a great heap of that metal...

~ Thomas More

If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to bring them, but merely to please themselves with the contemplation of it, enjoy any true pleasure in it? The delight they find is only a false shadow of joy. Those are no better whose error is somewhat different from the former, and who hide it, out of their fear of losing it; for what other name can fit the hiding it in the earth, or rather the restoring to it again, it being thus cut off from being useful, either to its owner or to the rest of mankind? And yet the owner having hid it carefully, is glad, because he thinks he is now sure of it. It if should be stole, the owner, though he might live perhaps ten years after the theft, of which he knew nothing, would find no difference between his having or losing it; for both ways it was equally useless to him.

~ Thomas More

No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to a place, to an occupation, and to conformity with the will of an employer, and debarred, by the accident of birth both from the enjoyments, and from the mental and moral advantages, which others inherit without exertion and independently of desert. That this is an evil equal to almost any of those against which mankind have hitherto struggled, the poor are not wrong in believing. Is it a necessary evil? They are told so by, those who do not feel it---by those who have gained the prizes in the lottery of life. But it was also said that slavery, that despotism, that all the privileges of oligarchy, were necessary.

~ John Stuart Mill

Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.

~ Robert Galbraith

They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way. The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor.

~ Katherine Boo

Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world, but we haven’t found wealth on the road.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Saving money won't get us rich. You have to spend it to get it.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.

~ Ruta Sepetys

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

~ James Rozoff

People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Those who fight for food will die in hunger, those who fight for wealth will end up poor heated, only those who seek knowledge and freedome will succeed even at there past.

~ Hamzat Haruna Ribah

Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you've got less

~ Benny Bellamacina

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

~ Will Durant

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

~ Seneca

Annie giggled again. She couldn’t seem to stop herself. And when she did, the most incredible thing happened. Alex’s grin vanished, and after gazing down at her for what seemed to her several endless seconds, he got tears in his eyes. “Thank you,” he said. Only that, just a simple “thank you.” But to Annie, those were the two most wonderful words she’d ever seen spoken, and they meant more to her than a thousand others might have. With them, he told her a wealth of things, namely that he had meant everything he’d said to her in the attic, that he not only wouldn’t punish her for making noise, but that he wanted her to.

~ Catherine Anderson

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

~ Mark Twain

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

~ Robert B. Reich

Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion).

~ Al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbalee

Like every other good thing in thisworld, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however,it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Let us beduly thankful for that, my dear Denis--duly thankful.

~ Aldous Huxley

Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention.

~ Habeeb Akande

Let's dispel a little myth. Working hard is NOT the key to success. It may be an ingredient, but it isn't the main one.

~ Tim Fargo

Everything is mended by the soil.

~ Andrew Crofts