Money and Wealth

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

How many things I can do without!

IN MANY WALKS OF LIFE, A CONSCIENCE IS A MORE EXPENSIVE ENCUMBRANCE THAN A WIFE OR A CARRIAGE.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Pat [his wife] doesn’t have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat.

Unearned increment of value.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, on the whole, as money. A man’s learning dies with him; even his virtues fade out of remembrance; but the

Poverty comes pleading, not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

Geological time is not money.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

One of the low on whom assurance sits

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship material success as a preparation for his future career.

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

Saving is a fine thing - especially when your parents have done it for you.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.