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Quotes about Wealth

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.
— Francois Rabelais
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.
— Henri Nouwen
Even people who are immensely praised and have made an enormous amount of money, who have awards, success, and applause, can be deeply depressed. If you get closer and you prick the balloon, you realize they are just as insecure as everyone else. Underneath all that wealth, all that success, and all that praise, they are still a little person who asks, "Do you love me?" Nouwen, Henri J. M.. Following Jesus (p. 53). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
— Henri Nouwen
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
— Henry David Thoreau
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
— Henry David Thoreau
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
— Henry David Thoreau