It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Lee Trevino

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
J. Paul Getty

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marlene Dietrich

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Gloria Steinem

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein

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

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
Norman Rockwell

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith