wealth Quotes

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

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.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.