3,637 Quotes About Wealth

And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.