Money and Wealth

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

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

Virtue has never been as respectable as money .

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

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

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

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

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

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.