Quotes about Wealth

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

Money is made—before it can be looted or mooched—made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, How much did he leave? His friend responded, He left it all.

Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it's often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, or honor. They will pass away, but love remains.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

True riches belong to those who shun false ones.