Quotes and Sayings about Wealth & Richness

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

Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice

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

Bungo Stray Dogs

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

John D. Rockefeller

Greed Business

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

Garth Brooks (American singer/songwriter)

Money

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

Coco Chanel

Money

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

William Jennings Bryan

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

Mark Cuban

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

Bill Gates

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

Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad - Season 3 Episode 11

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

Ernest Hemingway

Death

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.

Steve Jobs

Wise Sayings

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

Coco Chanel

Money

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.

Phil Taylor

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

James Munroe in The Expendables

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

Colonel Sanders

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

Happiness Millionaires

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

Samuel L. Jackson

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

William Henry Harrison

Greed Capitalism

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

Spike Milligan

Money

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.

Elizabeth Warren - "You didn't build that" (September 2011)

USA

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Dick Gregory

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Frank Herbert

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

David Rockefeller

Money Friendship Family

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Suze Orman

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Marlene Dietrich

Money

We are not the sum of our possessions.

George H. W. Bush

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

David Bailey

The tragic thing about rich people is that someone else is always richer.

Karl Lagerfeld

Greed

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Lauryn Hill

Freedom

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Kevin Gates

Heart

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

W. C. Fields

Money

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke

Greed

When a man gets wealthy, he has to deal with the problems of freedom. All the choices he could possibly want. An abyss opens up. Well, I watched that abyss. I watched it ruin men, marriages, but most of all, it ruins the children.

J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

I was asked once, "You're a smart man. Why aren't you rich?"
I replied, "You're a rich man. Why aren't you smart?"

Jacques Fresco

I want to be rich enough to realize that I can't buy happiness.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Henry Ford

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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.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Humanity Money

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Trust Money Friendship

The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

George Lucas

Greed Jedi

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

Greed Wise Sayings

Poverty is the stepmother of genius.

Josh Billings

Poverty

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

Woody Allen

Money Poverty

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Charles Bukowski

Millionaires

Slow but surely I come to the conclusion that billionaires aren't invested into the greater good for mankind.

December 2022

Billionaires

According to astrophysicists, nearly all gold on Earth came from a meteor shower four billion years ago. Maybe this violent arrival is the reason it's always been cursed. Because no other metal's gotten so many people killed as the one that we use when we propose to someone.

Tokyo in Money Heist - Season 5 Episode 6

Gold

Even in the darkness, diamonds still shine.

Girl from Nowhere - Season 1 Episode 3

Diamonds

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Coco Chanel

Character

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey

Friendship

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