Money & Finance: Wealth Quotes

Explore a curated collection of reflections on wealth, from building and preserving assets to defining abundance beyond numbers. These quotes highlight prudence, generosity, risk, and long-term thinking, offering perspective for entrepreneurs, investors, and everyday savers. Use them to spark discussion, clarify goals, or reframe your approach to earning, spending, and giving. Whether you seek practical guidance or philosophical balance, these voices encourage discipline, opportunity, and sustainable prosperity.

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

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"He who has the gold makes the rules"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits"

Charles A. Jaffe, Businessman

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"Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

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"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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"Let some people get rich first"

Deng Xiaoping, Leader

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"

Don Marquis, Journalist

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"We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure"

Hernando Cortez, Explorer

"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious"

Deng Xiaoping, Leader

"A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun"

Don Henley, Musician

"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

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"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

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"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure"

Errol Flynn, Actor

"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

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"Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier"

Christopher Columbus, Adventurer

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"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"The point is that you can't be too greedy"

Donald Trump, Businessman

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"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it"

Socrates, Philosopher

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"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money"

Barack Obama, President

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"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

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"The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral"

Jon Kyl, Politician

"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

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"Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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"Few rich men own their property; their property owns them"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

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"You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people"

Donald Trump, Businessman

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"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

Jane Austen, Writer

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"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches"

John Locke, Philosopher

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

Coco Chanel, Designer

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"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

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"No one can earn a million dollars honestly"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

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"Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy"

Robert Reich, Economist

"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is"

Cicero, Philosopher

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"Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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"There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

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