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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men. -
Charles Caleb Colton
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. -
Gilbert K Chesterton
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Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. -
Gilbert K Chesterton
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This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community --the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. -
Andrew Carnegie
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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. -
Sir Richard Burton
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Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream. -
John S Bonnell
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If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world? -
Benjamin Franklin
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He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20] -
Bible
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Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it! -
Georges Bernanos
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. -
Francis Bacon
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Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. -
Jean Anouilh
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. -
Jean De La Bruyère
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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside. -
B C Forbes
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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. -
George Bernard Shaw
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