Quotes about Wealth

Men hold two views of what happiness consists in, viz, having, and doing. To possess much, or to do some great thing, constitutes the sum of human blessedness according to popular theory.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

If we think that serving God always leads to greater prosperity, we're selectively reading our Bibles.

Game of the Royal Way. I had discovered that when God supplied money He did it in a kingly manner, not in some groveling way. Three

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is a rag unless you have something in it.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Giving is true having.

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn't awash in cash — and I don't want to go back.