Quotes about Wealth

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Prosperity covers physical, spiritual and material wealth.

The cathedrals were not financed by taxes, on the poor or on the rich. They were financed by gifts, from rich and poor alike. They were not built at the expense of the poor; they were built by the poor, by the peasants who worked on them, and by their gifts. And the cathedrals were also built for the poor, who usually love them more than the rich do. (The rich build banks; the poor build cathedrals. We build what we love.)

Greed for the things money can buy ("natural wealth") is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money ("artificial wealth") is infinite. You can always want more. It's like a drug: you have to have higher and higher doses of it to give you the same "buzz" you used to get from little bits of it. And this never stops. It is Hell's false infinite.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

You can have money and still love God, but as Jesus said, you cannot love money and love God.

Success isn't about things we acquire.