Quotes and Sayings about Poverty

Poverty is the stepmother of genius.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I would like to live like a poor man with lots of money.

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

Wealth is a nightmare. With each coveted thing we buy, we lose a thing we dream about.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

If you were born poor, it's not your mistake.
But if you die poor, it's your mistake.

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have, that money cannot buy.

You are a wealthy man now. One must learn to be rich. To be poor, anyone can manage

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

People think that being rich is all about having money. But the times I've had the most money is when I've been unhappiest.

Being wealthy is very good. It allows people to be the real asswipes nature intended them to be.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

It is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among homeless people.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you, but I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.

No amount of money ever bought a second of time.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Making money isn't hard in itself. What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

Who needs wealth when you can make a woman laugh?

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Money is the McMansion in Sarasota, that starts falling apart after ten years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.

Money isn't real, George. It doesn't matter! It only seems like it does.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Money will come and go. We all know that. The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Right here, right now.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving.

I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.