Wealth Quotes
- The page contains a collection of over 200 money quotes related to wealth from various historical and current figures
- The quotes cover different perspectives on wealth including its acquisition, impacts, and definitions
- Examples discuss wealth in terms of material possessions, health, relationships, options, and more
- Several religious perspectives are included from biblical passages and religious leaders
- Political figures offer views on the impacts of wealth on policy and elections
- Cultural figures provide insights on wealth and its relationship to happiness, status, and life fulfillment
“The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated” — Leland Stanford
“You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy” — Garth Brooks
“The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him” — Francis Bacon
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed” — Edmund Burke
“I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died” — Malcolm Forbes
“There is no wealth but life” — John Ruskin
“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“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
“But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth” — Deuteronomy 8:18
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost” — Billy Graham
“Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others” — Denis Waitley
“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth” — Alfred Marshall
“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker … Labor is the only source of wealth” — Eli Siegel
“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth” — Peter Drucker
“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world” — Muhammad
“I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it’s relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?” — Jarod Kintz
“Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income” — Ecclesiastes 5:10
“So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health” — A.J. Reb Materi
“We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy” — Chris Rock
“Which shall rule, wealth or man; which shall lead, money or intellect” — Edward Ryan
“I think the Republican Party is accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy” — Bob Herbert
“The wealth of a person should be estimated, not by the amount he has, but by the use he makes of it” — Josh Billings
“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
“The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority” — Janet Yellen
“Widening inequality resumed in the recovery, as the stock market rebounded, wage growth and the healing of the labor market have been slow, and the increase in home prices has not fully restored the housing wealth lost by the large majority of households for which it is their primary asset” — Janet Yellen
“The distribution of income and wealth in the United States has been widening more or less steadily for several decades, to a greater extent than in most advanced countries” — Janet Yellen
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“[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. …the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013” — Janet Yellen
“By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then” — Janet Yellen
“Capitalism is religion. Banks are churches. Bankers are priests. Wealth is heaven. Poverty is hell. Rich people are saints. Poor people are sinners. Commodities are blessings. Money is God” — Miguel D. Lewis
“God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires, but God does not enable him to enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil” — Ecclesiastes 6:2
“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it” — Socrates
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants” — Epictetus
“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
“We’re not doing things that we haven’t tested. We’ve had an experiment in this country. We had big tax cuts for very wealthy people and the economy did not do very well afterwards” — Jack Lew
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty” — Socrates
“It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth” — Seneca
“We always hear about the sick culture of poverty — what about the sick culture of wealth?” — Bill Maher
“We do have a moral crisis in America, but it doesn’t come from saggy pants or gay wedding cakes or Hillary’s email, it comes from worshipping obscene wealth” — Bill Maher
“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul” — Henry David Thoreau
“I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth and not ruled by it” — Pope Francis
“By attacking wealth inequality we can have a more stable, stronger society” — Paul Tudor Jones
“Voting patterns in the US Congress… are very closely aligned with the preference of their wealthy constituents and not at all aligned with the preference of the poor constituents” — Angus Deaton
“Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me – those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?” — Psalm 49:5-6
“Yes, I’m rich, but not in the way most people think about the question, People who equate wealth in any serious way with ‘amount of money that you have’ are missing a lot of richness in how humans value things” — Jimmy Wales
“The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality” — Benjamin Franklin
“It is absurd that the top one-tenth of 1% own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%, and that one family (the Waltons of Walmart) has more wealth than the bottom 130 million Americans” — Bernie Sanders
“Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil” — Proverbs 15:16
“To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money” — Richelle E Goodrich
“With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity. My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver. I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice, bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full” — Proverbs 8:18-21
“There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants” — Jarod Kintz
“When God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work – this is a gift of God” — Ecclesiastes 5:19
“For the fault is not in the wealth, but in the mind itself. That which had made poverty a burden to us, has made riches also a burden” — Seneca
“Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income” — Ecclesiastes 5:10
“One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. A man’s riches may ransom his life, but a poor man hears no threat” — Proverbs 13:7-8
“Now the idea, I believe, that money is speech turns our Constitution upside down. Wealth should not be privileged in the courts – in fact, it should have no privilege” — Hillary Clinton
“Common sense dictates that elections should be determined by who has the best ideas, not who can hustle the most money from the wealthy” — Bernie Sanders
“Wealth is not about having a lot of money, it’s about having a lot of options” — Chris Rock
“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed” — Kin Hubbard
“There’s one more thing that we must do to make America wealthy again, and you have to be wealthy in order to be great, I’m sorry to say” — Donald Trump
“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake” — Margaret Thatcher
“The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity” — P. T. Barnum
“Contemptuous of absolutely everything in the world except the wealth which is the cause of their being admired … they carry fire to fire, when they shower pride upon pride, and heap on wealth, heavy by its own nature, the heavier burden of arrogance” — Clement of Alexandria
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it” — Benjamin Franklin
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it” — George Bernard Shaw
“The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it” — Seneca the Younger
“Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth” — Mark Twain
“While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God” — H.W. Charles
“Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it” — Proverbs 10:22
“Commonly believed, especially among Republicans, that the rich deserve their wealth because they work harder than others. In reality, a large and growing portion of the super-rich have never broken a sweat. Their wealth has been handed to them” — Robert Reich
“Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth” — Proverbs 10:4
“We are going to go where the money is. We are going to have the wealthy pay their fair share” — Hillary Clinton
“It is obscene for so much wealth to be in the hands of so few people when 1 in 10 people live on less than $2 a day, Inequality is trapping hundreds of millions in poverty; it is fracturing our societies and undermining democracy” — Winnie Byanyima
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness” — Anne Frank
“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity” — Epicurus
“Wealth is not defined by the valuation of the census, but by habit and mode of life: not to be greedy is wealth; not to be extravagant is revenue. Above all things, to be content with what we possess is the greatest of all riches” — Cicero
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting” — Benjamin Franklin
“Feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present” — Robert Walser
“President Trump’s first 100 days have been a disastrous parade of broken promises to working people, handouts to wealthy special interests, and deep damage to the health and economic security of America’s families” — Nancy Pelosi
“Trump’s first 100 days has been a muddled but steady effort to lay the groundwork to redistribute the nation’s wealth from the bottom 99 percent to the top 1 percent” — Rob Delaney
“The economics of the future is somewhat different. You see, money doesn’t exist in the 24th century. The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity” — Captain Jean-Luc Picard
“A fraction of all wealth should be justly shared with everyone, because that fraction is
created by everyone” — Scott Santens
“Shine a light on this shameful Trumpcare bill and reveal to the public the GOP’s true intentions: to give the uber-wealthy a tax break while making middle class Americans pay more for less healthcare coverage” — Chuck Schumer
“Free speech isn’t free if only the wealthy can afford it” — Ted Deutch
“It doesn’t matter whether you have a lot or a little — what matters is that you think about the money you have as your wealth, and that you pay attention to it” — Terri Kallsen
“But brother John, will it pay? Can money be made out of it? Will it make the rich richer, and the strong stronger? How will it affect property? In the eyes of such people, there is no God but wealth; no right and wrong but profit and loss” — Frederick Douglass
“Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution” — Stephen Hawking
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver” — Mahatma Gandhi
“I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe but in the whole world: I collect emotions” – Vladimir Putin
“People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius” — Jerry Lewis
“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank” — Mary Wollstonecraft
“The great fault of modern democracy — a fault that is common to the capitalist and the socialist — is that it accepts economic wealth as the end of society and the standard of personal happiness” — Christoper Dawson
“The wealthy buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle-class tend to buy luxuries first” — Robert Kiyosaki
“Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe, up to the last secrets of art” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery, or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and, with the rapid wealth, come rapid claims: which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy … or one step further away” — Shay Olivarria
“Wealth isn’t always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change” — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things”– Baruch Spinoza
“All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn’t be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money” — Margaret Atwood
“You don’t need money to be wealthy in spirit” — Kora-Lea Vidal
“To have truly found success in life is not to acquire wealth or status. It is to have touched lives in such a way that leaves them forever changed” — Kora-Lea Vidal
“If I died and had all this wealth and yachts and all this stuff, would I be as happy as when I laugh?” — Steve Wozniak
“There’s poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without children, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without God, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without giving alms, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without wisdom, is he not poor? Then there’s a great lack in riches” — Michael Bassey Johnson
“Speech is wealth. It should be ‘counted’ upon spending. Does anyone ever give out money without counting it?” — Dada Bhagwan
Wealth is less about what’s in your bank account and more about what’s on your mind– Kora-Lea Vidal
“Wealth comes from industry and the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity” ~ Calvin Coolidge
“He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor” — Proverbs 28:8
“It’s time to put poor people in the center of our policy debates. We are the wealthiest and most powerful nation in human history. Our accomplishments in science and technology are unparalleled. We must now find the will to match these achievements in how we care for the poor.” — Ro Khanna
“Some are way less tortured by poverty than some are tormented by wealth” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer” — Ljupka Cvetanova
“The person who possesses wealth is not made happy by having it but by spending it, and not spending it haphazardly but in knowing how to spend it well” — Don Quixote
“I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men’s faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives” — Alfred Nobel
“The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa, or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge of the wants or feelings of the day laborer” — James Madison
“There are only two paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth” — Ziad K. Abdelnour
“That people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue” — John Hancock
“I’d give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life’s decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day” — Lewis Carroll
“Being broke is hard. Becoming wealthy is hard. Choose your hard” — Unknown
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“Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing” — Alexander Graham Bell
“It takes wisdom to gain wealth without losing health” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance” — Ayrton Senna
“Mere wealth, I am above it, It is the reputation wide, The playwright’s pomp, the poet’s pride That eagerly I covet” — Phyllis McGinley
“The gender of wealth in our country has fundamentally changed, and the complexion of wealth in our country is going to continue to change. It is only going to accelerate” — Jen Auerbach
“Wealth is always attracted, never pursued” — Babe Ruth
“If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted” — Miles Davis
“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing” — Helen Keller
“There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven” — John Locke
“When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don’t need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest” — Jean Vanier
“The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds” — James Cash Penney
“Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned” — Confucius
“Why does not the Pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the Basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers?” — Martin Luther
“Wealth is the number of things one can do without” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I confess that the only fear I have in regard to republican institutions is whether, in our day, any adequate remedy will be found for this incoming flood of the power of incorporated wealth” — Wendell Phillips
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life” — Henry David Thoreau
“Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence” — Steve Jobs
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh” — Theodore Parker
“Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains” — Edmund Ruffin
“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold” — Euripides
“Wars are caused by undefended wealth” — Ernest Hemingway
“Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no chance of getting it” — William Penn Patrick
“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time” — Margaret Bonnano
“Poverty has no causes. Wealth has causes. But capitalism has been so enormously successful at producing widespread material abundance that we today … regard wealth as innate to our existence, as our default mode. It is not” — Don Boudreaux
“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty” — Benjamin Disraeli
“For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one’s destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell” — Samuel Butler
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased” — Adam Smith
“Today, the United States is No. 1 in billionaires, No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world” — Bernie Sanders
“I’m a little lavish I must admit. But I’m not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is” — Cee Lo Green
“Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Terri Kallsen said:
American Definitions of Wealth
- 87% Not having to stress over money
- 81% Not having to worry about the future
- 78% Having a healthy work/life balance
- 77% Spending time with my family now
- 65% Having good physical health
- 62% Being with friends
- 61% Being able to donate my money to a cause I care about
- 58% Having gratitude
- 56% Building my community
- 44% Working on my career
- 42% Having money
- 39% Being able to donate my time to a cause I care about
- 38% Making lots of money
- 35% Having a lot of money
- 23% Leaving an inheritance for my family
- 22% Having an important job title
- 19% Being able to buy whatever I want now
- 13% Having more money than most people I know
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