Welcome to our curated collection of wealth quotes! Throughout history, wealth has been a subject of fascination, debate, and aspiration. From ancient philosophers to modern entrepreneurs, individuals have pondered the nature of wealth, its acquisition, and its impact on society and individuals. These quotes offer insights, perspectives, and reflections on the multifaceted nature of wealth, encompassing not only material riches but also wisdom, generosity, and fulfillment.
Wealth is often perceived as more than just financial abundance; it encompasses a richness of experiences, relationships, and contributions to the world. Some see it as a measure of success, while others view it as a means to achieve their goals and dreams. Regardless of one’s interpretation, these quotes delve into the complexities of wealth, inviting contemplation and exploration of its various dimensions. Whether you seek motivation, inspiration, or simply a fresh perspective, the wisdom encapsulated in these quotes promises to enrich your understanding of wealth and its significance in our lives. So without further ado, delve into the wealth of wisdom waiting for you below!
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth. Mario Puzo
History has shown that a government’s redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector’s creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy. Victor Davis Hanson
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth – both financial affluence and emotional security. Suze Orman
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. DeWitt Clinton
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. Marcus Aurelius
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place. Alexander Pope
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you’d better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this. Neil deGrasse Tyson
We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of the world we must be the focus of bitter amusement, characters in a satire we don’t understand. It is British people that don’t learn languages, or British history. Britain is the true scrounger, the true criminal. Frankie Boyle
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. Henry Adams
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. Plato
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. Margaret Thatcher
Where there are friends there is wealth. Plautus
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two. Chuck Berry
It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. Thomas Sowell
True wealth is not measured by how much money you’ve got in the bank or how many toys you’ve got. Some of the happiest people in the world don’t have a crying quarter, but they’ve got all the things that mean a lot to them. Rashad Evans
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. John D. Rockefeller
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. Theodore Roosevelt
The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all. Thiruvalluvar
Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ’cause it’s life or death for real. Nipsey Hussle
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both. Louis D. Brandeis
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. John Tyler
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Tom Waits
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. W. Somerset Maugham
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success. Rick Pitino
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It’s their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. Oriana Fallaci
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. Jim Rohn
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. Aeschylus
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter Drucker
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. Anne Frank
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread. Josh Billings
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw
Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country’s security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world’s renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world. Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
My wealth doesn’t come from offerings alone. Kenneth Copeland
We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. Gloria Steinem
I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I’m busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been. John Templeton
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. William J. Clinton
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. Moliere
Where wealth accumulates, men decay. Oliver Goldsmith
I had one idea that never changed in my mind – that you should use your wealth to help people. Chuck Feeney
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life. Jose Rizal
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. Alan Watts
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
Give, give, give – what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don’t give it away? Of having stories if I don’t tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don’t share it? I don’t intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine. Isabel Allende
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. Henry Ford
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
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. Edward Steichen
What good is my parents’ wealth and education and upbringing if I’m not contributing to the world? Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth. Patrisse Cullors
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. Lucretius
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. Miguel de Cervantes
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. John Kenneth Galbraith
I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. John F. Kennedy
Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth. P. J. O’Rourke
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth. Robert Kiyosaki
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. Euripides
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
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself… I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. Roger Nash Baldwin
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. Ernest Hemingway
Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out. Erik Voorhees
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. Richard Baker
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it. Pericles
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. Andrew Carnegie
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States. George W. Bush
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Herbert A. Simon
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. Martin Seligman
I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody. Barack Obama
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. Ben Hecht
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer. Karl Marx
The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations. Alfred Russel Wallace
Ability is a poor man’s wealth. John Wooden
The rich man’s dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man’s wealth is built. Samora Machel
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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. Bob Marley
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Arthur Schopenhauer
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. John Maynard Keynes
I’m thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination – in terms of providing for my family – is absolutely my goal. Nicki Minaj
We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases. Greta Thunburg
Every child’s taste is different. Don’t worry if they’re not reading ‘War and Peace’ at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy. Rick Riordan
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. Samuel Smiles
Wealth is just consistency… I don’t want to be rich. I want to be wealthy. Quavo
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened. Helene D. Gayle
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. Charles Spurgeon
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes. Ratan Tata
Follow your passion. Nothing – not wealth, success, accolades or fame – is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy. Jonathan Sacks
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epictetus
Wealth flows from energy and ideas. William Feather
The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity. Jordan Peterson
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. George Orwell
Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. Napoleon Hill
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Benjamin Franklin
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. Billy Graham
