Quotes about Wealth

The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for the least of these.

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be build on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's wealth, the artist who envies a rival's higher talent - they're all wishing facts out of existence and destruction is the only means of their wish. If they pursue it, they will not achieve a market, a fortune, or an immortal fame - they will merely destroy production

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

Money is the barometer of society's virtue.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned

Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices