Wealth Quotations

A collection of inspiring or humorous quotations about wealth and money!

I cannot afford to waste my time making money. - Louis Agassiz

The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. - Author Unknown

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. - Alexandre Dumas, Camille, 1852

The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. - Mad Magazine

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale

Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. - Michael Leboeuf

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. - From a word contest entry in the Washington Post

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. - the Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch.X, v.19)

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. - George Horace Lorimer

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. - Author Unknown

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. - Logan Pearsall Smith, ‘Life and Human Nature,’ Afterthoughts, 1931

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. - Kahlil Gibran

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail. - Henry Wheeler Shaw

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale. - Zig Ziglar

It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. - Groucho Marx

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

Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. - Ayn Rand

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, 1891

Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value. - T. Guillemets

It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. - Albert Camus

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. - Charles Caleb Colton

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving. - Dan Millman

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. - William Shakespeare

I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
- Hilaire Belloc, ‘Fatigued’, Sonnets and Verse, 1923

Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. - Mark Twain

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn

In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he’s a wonder. - Author Unknown

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. - Henrik Ibsen

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. - Brian Tracy