Socrates: Wealth Should Not be Praised Blindly

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

To Governments, Poverty & Wealth Both Bring Shame

"In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of." -- Confucius

Control Wealth Rather Than Being Controlled by Wealth

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed." -- Edmund Burke

Mencken: Wealth is Higher Income Than Yours

"Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband." -- H.L. Mencken

Henry Ford Quote on Wealth as By-Product of Service

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” -- Henry Ford

To Maintain Wealth Never Lose Your Character

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” -- Billy Graham

Invest in Health; Reap Wealth: Mahatma Gandhi Quote

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” -- Mahatma Gandhi

Taking the Easy Course Wastes Our Wealth of Time

“When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.” -- Barbara Sher

Wayne Dyer: Wealth Comes When You Are Unattached

“Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.” -- Wayne Dyer

Better to Enrich Childrens Minds Than Bankbooks

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” -- Epictetus

Wealth is Mandatory when Wealth is Worshipped

“Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.” -- Oscar Wilde

Societies Based on Wealth & Power Destined to Die

“What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power” -- Henry George

Henry David Thoreau on What Wealth Can Buy

“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only” -- Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is Between the Ears, Not in the Bank

"The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things.. it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future." -- Steve Forbes

Wealth Wisdom from Cicero 100 Years Before Christ

"Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all." -- Cicero

Wealth From Imagination: Riches Not in Cash

“All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.” -- Robert Collier

Inherited Wealth Fit Only for Fortune Builders

“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.” -- Ayn Rand

George W. Bush on Wealthy Supporters

"This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base." -- George W. Bush

Neither Riches nor Poverty Bring Happiness

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." -- Kin Hubbard

Money & Wealth Lovers Never Satisfied With Income

"Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless." -- Ecclesiastes 5:10

Money is A Measure, Not Wealth Itself

"Money is a scale by which wealth is estimated, and though it is not wealth, more than a barometer is weather, yet it is our only mode of computing it, and nothing, perhaps, is more natural than that the shadow should sometimes have been over-valued, or even taken for the substance." -- Thomas Joplin

Poverty is the Ruin of the Poor

"The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor. The wages of the righteous bring them life, but the income of the wicked brings them punishment." -- Proverbs 10:15-16

Money of Poor to Gift the Rich Brings Poverty

"He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich -- both come to poverty." -- Proverbs 22:16

Wealth is Accumulated, Not Money Spent

"Most people have it all wrong about wealth in America. Wealth is not the same as income. If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier. You are just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend." -- Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko