Quotes about Wealth
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
— Napoleon Hill
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
— Oscar Wilde
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
— St. Jerome
A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
— John Bunyan
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
— Khalil Gibran
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
— Euripides
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
— Marilyn Monroe
Teach the kids. They need to learn how to handle, grow and multiply money. It's basic and should be taught at an early stage.
— Bo Sanchez
See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise.
— Victor Hugo
The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.
— Victor Hugo