Quotes about Wealth

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.