Money and Wealth

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

He’s an absent-minded beggar and his weaknesses are great.

Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state.

Now that he was rich he was not thought ignorant any more, but simply eccentric.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.

I had my credit card stolen, but I didn't report it because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

(a) How much did you make last year? (b) How much have you got left? (c) Send (b).

Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.

Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich: that is why the bishops dare not denounce it fundamentally.

A gentleman of our days is one who has money enough to do what every fool would do if he could afford it: that is, consume without producing.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

They think that you bear old age more easily not because of the way you live but because you’re wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations.

It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who craves more.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory . . . was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward . . . through the ranks.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.