Wealth Quotes

“If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.”

~ Charles Wagner

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
~ Confucius

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

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

~ Steve Jobs

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

~ Socrates 

The first wealth is health.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

~ Henry Ford

Ability is a poor man's wealth. 

~ John Wooden

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

~ Plato

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

~ Plato

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

~ Ayn Rand

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

~ Ayn Rand

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

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

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

~ Jim Rohn

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

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

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

~ Edmund Burke

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

~ Edmund Burke

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

~ George Eliot

All wealth is the product of labor.

~ John Locke

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

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

~ Epictetus

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

~ Epictetus

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

~ Andrew Carnegie

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

~ John D. Rockefeller

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

~ John D. Rockefeller