"Riches are for spending."
Francis Bacon
81 FAMOUS QUOTES · WEALTH
Read 81 famous wealth quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Riches are for spending."
Francis Bacon
"I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better."
Sophie Tucker
"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."Jim Rohn
"It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for."
Robert Kiyosaki
"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."Henry David Thoreau
"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wealth, a friend, a wife and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again."
Chanakya
"Wealth that comes without harming others and without wrongful means will bring both virtue and happiness."
Thiruvalluvar
"When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honour are things to be ashamed of."
Confucius
"Some people are so poor, all they have is money."
Bob Marley
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
Honore de Balzac
"The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want, is priceless."
Morgan Housel
"The rich don't work for money."
Robert Kiyosaki
"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security."
Suze Orman
"Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options."
Chris Rock
"Riches begin in the form of thought!"Napoleon Hill
"How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case."
Robert G. Allen
"Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, the conveniences, and the amusements of human life."Adam Smith
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights."
J. Paul Getty
"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."
Seneca
"Honesty is praised and left to shiver."
Juvenal
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Yes, they have more money."Ernest Hemingway
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."Henry David Thoreau
"There is no wealth but life."
John Ruskin