Wealth Quotes

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

Contentment is natural wealth.

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth.

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.