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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

We are not the sum of our possessions.

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

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

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

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

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with 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.

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.

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

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?"

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.