No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Charles Spurgeon

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Epictetus

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
Robert Collier

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Woodrow Wilson

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Chanakya

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie

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

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

Thou shouldst not become presumptuous through much treasure and wealth; for in the end it is necessary for thee to leave all.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

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

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

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Gloria Steinem