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Wealth Quotes


"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."



"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!"


"Money is made only from time well converted."


"A man's bank balance is the new penis size."



"To misuse wealth is a great fault."


"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."


"On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom."


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


"Looking flash without the cash is worthless!"


"Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy."


"When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets."


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


"And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors," said Sister Carlotta. "And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent."


"No man has become world's richest man because he wasted his time in the pub in the cinemas watching movies and sports."


"The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started."


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


"The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth."


"I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it."


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


"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."


"People with money tend to buy more things instead of experiences...because they don't have time."


"And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on."


"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
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