Quotes about Wealth

Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.

I was broke into my forties.

I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth, in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing.

Wealth isn't evil, Kate. It's the love of money that is. When no matter how much you have is never enough.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…

Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?

Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.

Halleck murmured: "'For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.