Quotes about Wealth

There are those who have made their fortunes on other people's misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

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.

Then very few persons have any idea of the large number of applications for help that rich people are constantly being flooded with.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Even Fortune herself has had an adverse fortune.

What is it we buy with this money we desire? Is it something valuable? Is it something lasting? Oh, why do we desire it? Miserable is the rest achieved that costs so dearly.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.