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
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.Karl Heinrich Marx
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction. Arthur C.Brooks
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. Empedocles
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.Gautama Buddha
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.Socrates
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
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.Confucius
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. John Zimmerman
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. Ramakrishna
Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth. Jonathan Ames
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. P. G. Wodehouse
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. Benjamin Disraeli