Quotes about Wealth
John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.
— Bill Gates
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
— William Temple
The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.
— Esther Duflo
Very few people can afford to be poor.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
— Dolly Parton
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
— Ambrose of Milan
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
— Mark Twain
You are not created for poverty.
— Kenneth Copeland
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca