It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. Rockefeller

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

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

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Desiderius Erasmus

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

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
Orison Swett Marden

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Miguel de Cervantes

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Frank Herbert

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Frank Herbert

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles

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

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

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Ramakrishna

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Ramakrishna

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
William J. Clinton

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
Evita Peron

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.
Michelle Obama

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