Wealth Quotes

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. (Plato)
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. View quote
Confucius
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time. View quote
Kiran Desai
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are. View quote
Imelda Marcos
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Contentment is the only real wealth. View quote
Alfred Nobel
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty. (George Herbert)
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. View quote
Bob Marley
It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Where there are friends there is wealth. View quote
Plautus
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. View quote
John Tyler
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. (W. Somerset Maugham)
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. View quote
Edmund Burke
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. View quote
Tom Waits
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith