Money Quotes About Wealth & Priorities – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Thomas Jefferson

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Ogden Nash

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Charles Kuralt

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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

Margaret Thatcher

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

James Cash Penney

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Calvin Coolidge

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Daniel Webster

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

Paul Ryan

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Thomas Hobbes

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Heinrich Heine

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Sallust

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Mohandas Gandhi

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

W. Somerset Maugham

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Benjamin Franklin

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

Paul Wellstone

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Thomas Jefferson

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

William Graham Sumner

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life.

Darren L. Johnson