Quotes about Wealth
...without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
— Samuel Johnson
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.
— Abraham Lincoln
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
— Abraham Lincoln
When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.
— Napoleon Hill
Labor is the true standard of value.
— Abraham Lincoln
In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.
— St. John Chrysostom
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Fear will make you stingy.
— Kenneth Copeland
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the priviledge of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor shall be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
— Oscar Wilde
beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich
— Oscar Wilde
For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.
— Oscar Wilde
By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose - how does the quotation run? - his own soul?
— Oscar Wilde