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Wealth Quotes


"Wealth is as a result of the value of time."


"I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it."


"Having money is a way of being free of money."


"The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals."


"We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth."


"Materialism allows for a greater vision!"


"Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flourishing sign of God's specifically American favor, made manifest in the uncountable millions of Carnegie and Mellon and Henry Ford and Catholina Lambert. But amid this fabled plenty the whiff of damnation had cleared of dollars and cents the parched ground around Clarence Wilmot."


"An Indian's wealth Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save."


"No one is poor who has an abundance of love to share with others."


"Time is the greatest wealth in the world and only through conversion of time can money be made."


"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy."


"Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar evening look of hers which seems to say, in the flare of windows and theatre-doors, and the muffled rumble of swift-rolling carriages, that this is no world for you unless you have your pockets lined and your scruples drugged."


"Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times."


"To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount that man isn't rich."


"Everything that you have was bought by the currency of time."


"Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast."



"Wealthy people build palaces with nine floors. At the time of their departure (dying), the palace jests with them, 'You are going and here we remain standing!' The palaces are not the only palaces, are they? The wife, the children " they are all palaces indeed!"


"Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it."


"Treat time and money as though they are the same by using both resourcefully."


"Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old."


"The wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources."


"I know a lot of wealthy people, and yet not many of them drive a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari! However, I also know some of poor people on the verge of bankruptcy driving Bentleys!"


"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."


"Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master."


"Riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep's clothing, pretending to be security against anxieties, and they become then the object of anxiety. They secure a man against anxieties just about as well as the wolf that is put to tending the sheep."


"Being rich is an untalented artist's consolation prize."


"You can create financial abundance by having a positive relationship with money."


"The most valuable things in your life are always the things that money cannot buy."


"Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man."


"Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich."


"If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment."


"You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy."
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