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 spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

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

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Mercy Otis Warren

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
John Chrysostom

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
George W. Bush

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
John D. Rockefeller

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
Lester B. Pearson